Table of contents for Developmental plasticity and evolution / Mary Jane West-Eberhard.

Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. Note: Electronic data is machine generated. May be incomplete or contain other coding.




I: FRAMEWORK FOR A SYNTHESIS

   1. Gaps and Inconsistencies in Modern Evolutionary Thought  3
   2. Material for a Synthesis  21
   3. Plasticity  34
   4. Modularity   56
   5. Development   89
   6. Adaptive Evolution  139
   7. Principles of Development and Evolution  159
   8. Darwin's Theory of Development and Evolution  188

II: THE ORIGINS OF NOVELTY

    9. The Nature and Analysis of Phenotype Transitions  197
    10. Duplication  209
    11. Deletion  218
    12. Reversion  232
    13. Heterochrony  241
    14. Heterotopy   255
    15. Cross-sexual Transfer  260
    16. Quantitative Shifts and Correlated Change  296
    17. Combinatorial Evolution at the Molecular Level  317
    18. Phenotypic Recombination Due to Learning  337
    19. Recurrence  353

III: ALTERNATIVE PHENOTYPES

   20. Alternative Phenotypes as a Phase of Evolution  377
   21. Divergence without Speciation  394
   22. Maintenance without Equilibrium  417
   23. Assessment   440
   
IV: DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY AND THE MAJOR THEMES OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

   24. Gradualism   471
   25. Homology    485
   26. Environmental Modifications  498



Outline of Contents

   27. Speciation   526
   28. Adaptive Radiation   564
   29. Macroevolution    598
   30. Punctuation   617
   31. One Final Word: Sex   630
   
Literature Cited  639
Author Index    745
Taxonomic Index    759
Subject Index   767