Evolution from the Galapagos : Two Centuries after Darwin /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Trueba, Gabriel. (Editor ), Montúfar, Carlos. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Colección:Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands, 2
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.