Phenotypes: Their epigenetics, ecology and evolution - Hardcover

Rollo, C.D.

 
9780412410307: Phenotypes: Their epigenetics, ecology and evolution
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0412410303 ISBN 13: 9780412410307
Publisher: Springer, 1994

Synopsis

This book provides a framework for understanding organism design including constraints, trends and major constellations of adaptive tactics. The fundamental organization revolves around organisms as problem solving machines - the key problems and alternative solutions.

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Review

This is a very good book - The Biologist; ...contains much food for thought - The Molecular Engineer and Biotechnologist

Synopsis

This text incorporates modern molecular knowledge of the structure and regulation of genes into an evolutionary framework, stressing the importance of genomic integration as a selectable feature in the evolution of multicellular phenotypes. It reinterprets important subjects in the new framework, including transposable elements, epigenetics, the evolution of sex, phenotypic plasticity and the evolution and regulation of longevity assurance systems. This work's vast scope spans the molecular to the ecological, making it relevant to all biologists. It should also interest those designing new organisms genetically, and to those wishing to understand the design of naturally evolved organisms.

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0412410303
ISBN 13 
9780412410307
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
478