Evolution from the Galapagos, 2013 Two Centuries after Darwin Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands Series, Vol. 2
Coordonnateurs : Trueba Gabriel, Montúfar Carlos
Foreword.- Part I: Historical Perspectives.- Darwin-Wallace paradigm shift: The ten days that failed to shake the world.- From Copernicus to Darwin.- Part II: A Microbial World.- A Vestige of an RNA Apparatus with Ribozyme Capabilities Embedded and Functions within the Modern Ribosome.- Covering all the Bases: the Promise of Genome-Wide Sequence Data for Large Population Samples of Bacteria.- Role of Symbiosis in Evolution.- Part III: Early Eukaryotes.- The Evolutionary Origin of Animals and Fungi.- Written in stone: The fossil record of early eukaryotes.- Endosymbiosis in the originof eukaryotes.- Symbiogenetics: Proposal for a new science.- Part IV: A Planet of Animals and Plants.- Epochal change: sweltering climate at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary (55 million years ago).- Speciation and evolution of Darwin’s finches.- Ecological Selection and the Evolution of Body Size and Sexual Size Dimorphism in the Galapagos Flightless Cormorant.- Index.
Includes lectures presented at the two international “summits on evolution" from 2005 and 2009
Gives an overview of developments that have taken place in our understanding of evolution since the papers of Darwin and Wallace
Demonstrates a path for future research which will further our understanding of life on earth and how it evolved
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Date de parution : 07-2015
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Ajouter au panierDate de parution : 06-2013
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