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| INTERPRETING THE HIERARCHY OF NATURE
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From Systematic Patterns to Evolutionary Process Theories
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Edited By
Olivier Rieppel, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A.
Description
This book explores ways in which systematic patterns are used to infer evolutionary processes. Among evolutionary biologists and systematists
there is a constant interchange between those that study the process of evolution (e.g., mutation, selection, speciation) and those that
study its patterns (e.g., variation, geographic distribution, ontogeny, phylogeny). Because patterns influence the development of theories,
and processes yield patterns, it is not always easy to distinguish one from another. This book is dialectic and helps crystallize a continuing
debate over the relationship of patterns to process theories.
Contents
Introduction to Patterns and Process Perspectives. Pattern Description, Process Explanation and the History of Morphological Sciences.
Theoretical Pluralism in Biology, Including Systematics. Repeating Patterns in Nature, Predictability and "Impact" in Science. Morphological
and Molecular Inroads to Phylogeny. Stratocladistics: Morphological and Temporal Patterns and Their Relation to Phylogenetic Process.
The Use of Unconventional Morphological Characters in the Analysis of Systematic and Evolutionary Processes. The Phylogeny of Development
and the Origin of Homology. Summary and Comments on Systematic Patterns and Evolutionary Process. Subject Index.
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Hardbound, 298 pages, publication date: MAY-1994
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-295120-6
ISBN-10: 0-12-295120-4
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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