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Evolutionary theory : a hierarchical perspective / edited by Niles Eldredge, Telmo Pievani, Emanuele Serrelli, and Ilya Tëmkin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226426198
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QH360 .E965 2016
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Contents:
Introduction: the checkered career of hierarchical thinking in evolutionary biology / Niles Eldredge -- General principles of biological hierarchical systems / Ilya Tëmkin and Emanuele Serrelli -- Pattern versus process and hierarchies: revisiting eternal metaphors in macroevolutionary theory / Bruce S. Lieberman -- Lineages and systems: a conceptual discontinuity in biological hierarchies / Gustavo Caponi -- Biological organization from a hierarchical perspective: articulation of concepts and interlevel relation / Jon Umerez -- Hierarchy: the source of teleology in evolution / Daniel W. McShea -- Approaches to the teleological and normative aspects of ecological functions / Gregory J. Cooper, Charbel N. El-Hani, and Nei F. Nunes-Neto -- Information and energy in biological hierarchical systems / Ilya Tëmkin and Emanuele Serrelli -- Why genomics needs multilevel evolutionary theory / T. Ryan Gregory, Tyler A. Elliott, and Stefan Linquist -- Revisiting the phenotypic hierarchy in hierarchy theory / Silvia Caianiello -- Multilevel selection in a broader hierarchical perspective / Telmo Pievani and Andrea Parravicini -- Systems emergence: the origin of individuals in biological and biocultural evolution / Mihaela Pavličev, Richard O. Prum, Gary Tomlinson, and Günter P. Wagner -- Ecology and evolution: neither separate nor merged? / Emanuele Serrelli and Ilya Tëmkin -- Unification of macroevolutionary theory: biologic hierarchies, consonance and the possibility of connecting the dots / William Miller III -- Coming to terms with tempo and mode: speciation, anagenesis, and assessing relative frequencies in macroevolution / Warren D. Allmon -- Niche conservatism, tracking, and ecological stasis: a hierarchical perspective / Carlton E. Brett, Andrew Zaffos, and Arnold I. Miller -- The stability of ecological communities as an agent of evolutionary selection: evidence from the Permian-Triassic mass extinction / Peter D. Roopnarine and Kenneth D. Angielczyk -- Hierarchy theory in the Anthropocene: biocultural homogenization, urban ecosystems, and other emerging dynamics / Michael L. McKinney -- Conclusion: hierarchy theory and the extended synthesis debate / Telmo Pievani.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: the checkered career of hierarchical thinking in evolutionary biology / Niles Eldredge -- General principles of biological hierarchical systems / Ilya Tëmkin and Emanuele Serrelli -- Pattern versus process and hierarchies: revisiting eternal metaphors in macroevolutionary theory / Bruce S. Lieberman -- Lineages and systems: a conceptual discontinuity in biological hierarchies / Gustavo Caponi -- Biological organization from a hierarchical perspective: articulation of concepts and interlevel relation / Jon Umerez -- Hierarchy: the source of teleology in evolution / Daniel W. McShea -- Approaches to the teleological and normative aspects of ecological functions / Gregory J. Cooper, Charbel N. El-Hani, and Nei F. Nunes-Neto -- Information and energy in biological hierarchical systems / Ilya Tëmkin and Emanuele Serrelli -- Why genomics needs multilevel evolutionary theory / T. Ryan Gregory, Tyler A. Elliott, and Stefan Linquist -- Revisiting the phenotypic hierarchy in hierarchy theory / Silvia Caianiello -- Multilevel selection in a broader hierarchical perspective / Telmo Pievani and Andrea Parravicini -- Systems emergence: the origin of individuals in biological and biocultural evolution / Mihaela Pavličev, Richard O. Prum, Gary Tomlinson, and Günter P. Wagner -- Ecology and evolution: neither separate nor merged? / Emanuele Serrelli and Ilya Tëmkin -- Unification of macroevolutionary theory: biologic hierarchies, consonance and the possibility of connecting the dots / William Miller III -- Coming to terms with tempo and mode: speciation, anagenesis, and assessing relative frequencies in macroevolution / Warren D. Allmon -- Niche conservatism, tracking, and ecological stasis: a hierarchical perspective / Carlton E. Brett, Andrew Zaffos, and Arnold I. Miller -- The stability of ecological communities as an agent of evolutionary selection: evidence from the Permian-Triassic mass extinction / Peter D. Roopnarine and Kenneth D. Angielczyk -- Hierarchy theory in the Anthropocene: biocultural homogenization, urban ecosystems, and other emerging dynamics / Michael L. McKinney -- Conclusion: hierarchy theory and the extended synthesis debate / Telmo Pievani.

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