TY - BOOK AU - Eldredge,Niles AU - Pievani,Telmo AU - Serrelli,Emanuele AU - Tëmkin,Ilya TI - Evolutionary theory: a hierarchical perspective SN - 9780226426198 AV - QH360 .E965 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Chicago, London PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Evolution (Biology) KW - Evolution KW - Philosophy KW - Hierarchies KW - Biological systems KW - Macroevolution KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1334041&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -