This expanded and updated second edition offers a comprehensive look at macroevolution and its underpinnings, with a primary emphasis on animal evolution. From a Neodarwinian point of view, the book integrates evolutionary processes at all levels to explain the diversity of animal life. It examines a wide range of topics including genetics, speciation, development, evolution, constructional and functional aspects of form, fossil lineages, and systematics, and --in a major new chapter--takes a hard look at the Cambrian explosion. The author delves into the age of molecular science and integrates important recent contributions made to our understanding of evolution.
Author(s): Jeffrey S. Levinton
Edition: 2nd ed
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 634
City: Cambridge; New York
Contents......Page 8
Preface to the First Edition......Page 10
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 14
1 Macroevolution: The Problem and the Field......Page 18
2 Genealogy, Systematics, and Macroevolution......Page 49
3 Genetics, Speciation, and Transspecific Evolution......Page 98
4 Development and Evolution......Page 174
5 The Constructional and Functional Aspects of Form......Page 244
6 Patterns of Morphological Change in Fossil Lineages......Page 302
7 Patterns of Diversity, Origination, and Extinction......Page 384
8 A Cambrian Explosion?......Page 460
9 Coda: Ten Theses......Page 512
Glossary of Macroevolution......Page 528
References......Page 536
B......Page 604
C......Page 606
D......Page 607
G......Page 608
H......Page 609
K......Page 611
L......Page 612
M......Page 613
N......Page 614
R......Page 615
S......Page 616
T......Page 618
W......Page 619
Z......Page 620
B......Page 622
C......Page 623
D......Page 624
E......Page 625
G......Page 626
H......Page 627
M......Page 628
N......Page 629
P......Page 630
R......Page 631
S......Page 632
V......Page 633
Z......Page 634
