The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)

Contents......Page 6
Series Foreword......Page 8
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
I A Big Picture of Big Pictures of Life’s History......Page 26
1 The Miscellaneous Transitions in Evolution......Page 30
2 Alternative Patterns of Explanation for Major Transitions......Page 46
3 Biological Ontology and Hierarchical Organization......Page 64
4 Darwinian Populations and Transitions in Individuality......Page 76
5 Evolvability Reconsidered......Page 94
II The Prokaryote’s Tale......Page 112
6 To Be or Not To Be......Page 116
7 The Evolution of Restraint in Structured Populations......Page 138
8 Conflicts among Levels of Selection as Fuel for the Evolution of Individuality......Page 152
III Complexity and the Developmental Cycle......Page 174
9 Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality......Page 180
10 How Many Levels Are There?......Page 210
11 Plant Individuality and Multilevel Selection Theory......Page 238
12 Phylogenetic, Functional, and Geological Perspectives on Complex Multicellularity......Page 262
13 The Small Picture Approach to the Big Picture......Page 282
IV Concluding Remarks......Page 310
14 Concluding Remarks......Page 312
Contributors......Page 322
Index......Page 324