TY  - BOOK
AU  - Calcott,Brett
AU  - Sterelny,Kim
AU  - Szathmáry,Eörs
TI  - The major transitions in evolution revisited
T2  - Vienna series in theoretical biology
SN  - 9780262295703
AV  - QH366.2 .M34 2011eb
U1  - 576.8 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Maynard Smith, John,
KW  - Szathmáry, Eörs.
KW  - Szathmáry, Eörs
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Biodiversity
KW  - Genetic transformation
KW  - Population genetics
KW  - Biological Evolution
KW  - Transformation, Genetic
KW  - Genetics, Population
KW  - Biodiversité
KW  - Génétique des populations
KW  - Évolution (Biologie)
KW  - evolution
KW  - aat
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - Evolution
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Biodiversität
KW  - gnd
KW  - Transformation
KW  - Genetik
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Populationsgenetik
KW  - Theorie
KW  - BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : a dynamic view of evolution / Brett Calcott and Kim Sterelny -- The miscellaneous transitions in evolution / Daniel W. McShea and Carl Simpson -- Alternative patterns of explanation for major transitions / Brett Calcott -- Biological ontogeny and hierarchical organization : a defense of rank freedom / Samir Okasha -- Darwinian populations and transitions in individuality / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Evolvability reconsidered / Kim Sterelny -- To be or not to be : where is self-preservation in evolutionary theory? / Pamela Lyon -- The evolution of restraint in structured populations : setting the stage for an egalitarian major transition / Benjamin Kerr and Joshua Nahum -- Conflicts among levels of selection as fuel for the evolution of individuality / Paul B. Rainey and Benjamin Kerr -- Evolutionary transitions in individuality : multicellularity and sex / Richard E. Michod -- How many levels are there? : how insights from evolutionary transitions in individuality help measure the hierarchical complexity of life / Carl Simpson -- Plant individuality and multilevel selection theory / Ellen Clarke -- Phylogenetic, functional, and geological perspectives on complex multicellularity / Andrew H. Knoll and David Hewitt -- The small picture approach to the big picture : using DNA sequences to investigate the diversification of animal body plans / Lindell Bromham -- Concluding remarks / Eörs Szathmáry and Chrisantha Fernando
N2  - In 1995, John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry published their influential book 'The Major Transitions in Evolution'. In this volume, scholars reconsider and extend the earlier book's themes in light of recent developments in evolutionary biology
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