Evolution from the Galapagos : Two Centuries after Darwin - Trueba, Gabriel; Montúfar, Carlos; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Foreword -- Part I: Historical Perspectives -- Darwin-Wallace paradigm shift: The ten days that failed to shake the world -- From Copernicus to Darwin -- Part II: A Microbial World -- A Vestige of an RNA Apparatus with Ribozyme Capabilities Embedded and Functions within the Modern Ribosome -- Covering all the Bases: the Promise of Genome-Wide Sequence Data for Large Population Samples of Bacteria -- Role of Symbiosis in Evolution -- Part III: Early Eukaryotes -- The Evolutionary Origin of Animals and Fungi -- Written in stone: The fossil record of early eukaryotes -- Endosymbiosis in the origin of eukaryotes -- Symbiogenetics: Proposal for a new science -- Part IV: A Planet of Animals and Plants -- Epochal change: sweltering climate at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary (55 million years ago) -- Speciation and evolution of Darwin's finches -- Ecological Selection and the Evolution of Body Size and Sexual Size Dimorphism in the Galapagos Flightless Cormorant -- Index.
Keywords: Geography; Ecosystems; Nature conservation; Evolutionary biology; Geography, general; Ecosystems; Nature Conservation; Evolutionary Biology