Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution
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Expanded and updated second edition comprehensively looks at macroevolution, integrating evolutionary processes at all levels to explain animal diversity. Booknews Levinton (ecology and evolution, State U. of New York at Stony Brook) presents the second edition of this volume exploring macroevolution, with a main emphasis on animal evolution. Coverage includes genetics and speciation, development and evolution, the constructional and functional aspects of form, fossil lineages, and systematics. In the second edition, the chapter on genetic variation has been eliminated and relevant descriptions of within-population variation studies moved to other chapters where necessary. The chapter on development and evolution has been extensively revised and expanded, and a new chapter added on the Cambrian Explosion. Intended for researchers and graduate students. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface to the First EditionPreface to the Second Edition1Macroevolution: The Problem and the Field12Genealogy, Systematics and Macroevolution323Genetics, Speciation, and Transspecific Evolution814Development and Evolution1575The Constructional and Functional Aspects of Form2276Patterns of Morphological Change in Fossil Lineages2857Patterns of Diversity, Origination, and Extinction3678A Cambrian Explosion?4439Coda: Ten Theses495Glossary of Macroevolution511References519Author Index587Subject Index605
