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Rui Diogo

Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior

A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches and Trends

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This book proposes a new way to think about evolution. The author carefully brings together evidence from diverse fields of science. In the process, he bridges the gaps between many different--and usually seen as conflicting--ideas to present one integrative theory named ONCE, which stands for Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution. The author argues that evolution is mainly driven by the behavioral choices and persistence of organisms themselves, in a process in which Darwinian natural selection is mainly a secondary--but still crucial--evolutionary player. Within ONCE, evolution is therefore generally made of mistakes and mismatches and t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-319-83773-4
  • EAN: 9783319837734
  • Produktnummer: 28389310
  • Verlag: Springer International Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.4 cm 417 g
  • Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 417

Über den Autor


Rui Diogo is an Associate Professor at Howard University College of Medicine and a member of the Resource Faculty at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology at George Washington University. One of the youngest researchers to be nominated as Fellow of the American Association of Anatomists, he won several prestigious awards, being the only researcher to be selected for the first/second place for best article of the year in the top anatomical journal two times in just three years (2013/2015). Author or co-author of more than 100 papers in top journals, such as Nature, and of numerous book chapters, he is the co-editor of three books and the sole or first author of eleven books covering subjects as diverse as fish evolution, chordate development, and human medicine and pathology, including a book adopted at medical schools worldwide, Learning and understanding human anatomy and pathology: an evolutionary and developmental guide for medical students.

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