Tempo and Mode in Evolution

by Fitch, Walter M.; Ayala, Francisco Jose

• ISBN13: 9780309051910
• ISBN10: 0309051916
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: Natl Academy Pr

Summary

Commemorates the 50th anniversary of Simpson's publication by bringing together the findings and insights of today's leading experts in the study of evolution. DLC: Evolution (Biology)

Table of Contents

Tempo, Mode, the Progenote, and the Universal Root	p. 3
Phylogeny from Function: The Origin of tRNA Is in Replication, not Translation	p. 25
Disparate Rates, Differing Fates: Tempo and Mode of Evolution Changed from the Precambrian to the Phanerozoic	p. 41
Proterozoic and Early Cambrian Protists: Evidence for Accelerating Evolutionary Tempo	p. 63
Late Precambrian Bilaterians: Grades and Clades	p. 87
The Role of Extinction in Evolution	p. 109
Tempo and Mode in the Macroevolutionary Reconstruction of Darwinism	p. 125
Morphological Evolution Through Complex Domains of Fitness	p. 145
Tempo and Mode in Human Evolution	p. 169
Molecular Genetics of Speciation and Human Origins	p. 187
Rates and Patterns of Chloroplast DNA Evolution	p. 215
The Superoxide Dismutase Molecular Clock Revisited	p. 235
Dynamics of Adaptation and Diversification: A 10,000-Generation Experiment with Bacterial Populations	p. 253
Explaining Low Levels of DNA Sequence Variation in Regions of the Drosophila Genome with Low Recombination Rates	p. 275
The History of a Genetic System	p. 287
Genome Structure and Evolution in Drosophila: Applications of the Framework P1 Map	p. 299
Index	p. 315
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