Evolution from the Galapagos : two centuries after Darwin
Gabriel Trueba, Carlos Montúfar, editors
Bok · Engelsk
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| Omfang | xviii, 168 sider : illustrasjoner, kart, portretter
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| Opplysninger | "Second book in the Galapagos Book Series" -- Forordet.. - Selected papers presented at the first (2005) and second (2009) World Summit on Evolution meetings, held at GAIAS (Galapagos Academic Institute for the Arts and Sciences), part of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, on the island of San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands. (Preface). - Darwin-Wallace paradigm shift / Ricardo Guerrero and Lynn Margulis -- From Copernicus to Darwin (1473-1882) / Carlos Montúfar -- How did life originate? / Antonio Lazcano -- A vestige of an RNA apparatus with ribozyme capabilities embedded and functions within the modern ribosome / Ada Yonath -- Covering all the bases : the promise of genome-wide sequence data for large population samples of bacteria / Santiago Castillo-Ramírez and Edward J. Feil -- Role of symbiosis in evolution / Amparo Latorre and Andrés Moya -- The evolutionary origin of animals and fungi / Sandra Baldauf, Maria Romeralo and Martin Carr -- Written in stone : the fossil record of early eukaryotes / Shuhai Xiao -- Endosymbiosis and the origin of eukaryotes / Michael F. Dolan -- Epochal change : sweltering climate at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary (55 million years ago) / Bruce Scofield -- Insight into speciation from long-term research on Darwin's finches / Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant -- Ecological selection and the evolution of body size and sexual size dimorphism in the Galapagos flightless cormorant / Carlos A. Valle.
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| ISBN | 9781461467311
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