
Epigenetic Principles of Evolution
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Key Features
- Original and thought provoking--a radically new theory that overcomes the present difficulties of the theory of evolution
- Is the first and only theory that uses epigenetic mechanisms and principles for explaining evolution of metazoans
- Takes an integrative approach and shows a wide range of learning
Readership
Evolutionary biologists, developmental biologists and ecologists
Table of Contents
Dedication
Introduction: The Explanatory Conundrum and the New Perspective in Modern Biology
1. Control Systems and Determination of Phenotypic Traits in Metazoans
2. Neural Manipulation of Gene Expression
3. Epigenetic Control of Reproduction
4. Epigenetic Control of Early Development
5. Neural Control of Postphylotypic Development
6. The Epigenetic System of Inheritance—An Outline
7. Evolution and Stress Responses to Changes in Environment
8. Behavioral Adaptation to Changed Conditions of Living
9. Ontogeny
10. Intragenerational Developmental Plasticity
11. Transgenerational Developmental Plasticity—An Epitome of Evolutionary Change
12. Evolution of Metazoans and Their Control System
13. Origins of Evolutionary Novelty
14. Evolution by Loss
15. Evolution by Reverting to Ancestral Characters
16. Neural Crest–Determined Evolutionary Novelties
17. Evolutionary Convergences
18. Species and Allopatric Speciation
19. Epigenetics of Sympatric Speciation—Speciation as a Mechanism of Evolution
Product details
- No. of pages: 846
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2011
- Published: November 21, 2011
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780124158511
About the Author
Nelson Cabej
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