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Evolution, the extended synthesis / edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Müller. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. - viii, 495 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Outgrowth of a meeting of the "Altenberg 16" at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg, Austria, in July 2008. Cf. pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Elements of an extended evolutionary synthesis / Reconsidering the importance of chance variation / High-dimensional fitness landscapes and speciation / Multilevel selection and major transitions / Integrating genomics into evolutionary theory / Complexities in genome structure and evolution / Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance / Niche inheritance / Chemical, neuronal, and linguistic replicators / Facilitated variation / Dynamical patterning modules / Epigenetic innovation / Origination patterns and multilevel processes in macroevolution / Phenotypic plasticity / Evolution of evolvability / Rethinking the structure of evolutionary theory for an extended synthesis / The dialectics of dis/unity in the evolutionary synthesis and its extensions / Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Müller -- John Beatty -- Sergey Gavrilets -- David Sloan Wilson -- Gregory A. Wray -- Michael Purugganan -- Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb -- John Odling-Smee -- Chrisantha Fernando and Eörs Szathmáry -- Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart -- Stuart A. Newman -- Gerd B. Müller -- David Jablonski -- Massimo Pigliucci -- Günter P. Wagner and Jeremy Draghi -- Alan C. Love -- Werner Callebaut.

9780262513678 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0262513676 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Evolution (Biology)
Evolutionary genetics.
Developmental biology.

QH366.2 / .E8627 2010

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