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