Evolutionary theory : a hierarchical perspective /
"The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of larger systems: genes are components genomes, cells are building blocks of tissues and organs, individuals are members of populations, which, in turn, are parts of species. In th...
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The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the checkered career of hierarchical thinking in evolutionary biology / Niles Eldredge
- Hierarchy theory of evolution. General principles of biological hierarchical systems / Ilya Tëmkin and Emanuele Serrelli
- Pattern versus process and hierarchies: revisiting eternal metaphors in macroevolutionary theory / Bruce S. Lieberman
- Lineages and systems: a conceptual discontinuity in biological hierarchies / Gustavo Caponi
- Biological organization from a hierarchical perspective: articulation of concepts and interlevel relation / Jon Umerez
- Hierarchy: the source of teleology in evolution / Daniel W. McShea
- Approaches to the teleological and normative aspects of ecological functions / Gregory J. Cooper, Charbel N. El-Hani, and Nei F. Nunes-Neto
- Hierarchical dynamics: process integration across levels. Information and energy in biological hierarchical systems / Ilya Tëmkin and Emanuele Serrelli
- Why genomics needs multilevel evolutionary theory / T. Ryan Gregory, Tyler A. Elliott, and Stefan Linquist
- Revisiting the phenotypic hierarchy in hierarchy theory / Silvia Caianiello
- Multilevel selection in a broader hierarchical perspective / Telmo Pievani and Andrea Parravicini
- Systems emergence: the origin of individuals in biological and biocultural evolution / Mihaela Pavličev, Richard O. Prum, Gary Tomlinson, and Günter P. Wagner
- Biological hierarchies and macroevolutionary patterns. Ecology and evolution: neither separate nor merged? / Emanuele Serrelli and Ilya Tëmkin
- Unification of macroevolutionary theory: biologic hierarchies, consonance and the possibility of connecting the dots / William Miller III
- Coming to terms with tempo and mode: speciation, anagenesis, and assessing relative frequencies in macroevolution / Warren D. Allmon
- Niche conservatism, tracking, and ecological stasis: a hierarchical perspective / Carlton E. Brett, Andrew Zaffos, and Arnold I. Miller
- The stability of ecological communities as an agent of evolutionary selection: evidence from the Permian-Triassic mass extinction / Peter D. Roopnarine and Kenneth D. Angielczyk
- Hierarchy theory in the Anthropocene: biocultural homogenization, urban ecosystems, and other emerging dynamics / Michael L. McKinney
- Conclusion: hierarchy theory and the extended synthesis debate / Telmo Pievani.