The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited
Drawing on recent advances in evolutionary biology, prominent scholars return to the question posed in a pathbreaking book: how evolution itself evolved.In 1995, John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry published their influential book The Major Transitions in Evolution. The transitions that Maynard Smith and Szathmáry chose to describe all constituted major changes in the kinds of organisms that existed but, most important, these events also transformed the evolutionary process itself. The evolution of new levels of biological organization, such as chromosomes, cells, multicelled organisms, and complex social groups radically changed the kinds…
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Weitere Autoren: Sterelny, Kim (Professor, Australian National University) (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-262-01524-0
- EAN: 9780262015240
- Produktnummer: 10485214
- Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B18.5 cm x D2.2 cm 680 g
- Abbildungen: 36 b&w illus., 6 tables; 42 Illustrations, unspecified
- Gewicht: 680
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Brett Calcott is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the ASU/SFI Center for Complex Biosocial Systems in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and coeditor (with Kim Sterelny) of The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited (MIT Press, 2011).Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington. His books include Language and Reality (with Michael Devitt; second edition, MIT Press).Brett Calcott is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the ASU/SFI Center for Complex Biosocial Systems in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and coeditor (with Kim Sterelny) of The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited (MIT Press, 2011).Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington. His books include Language and Reality (with Michael Devitt; second edition, MIT Press).
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