01397nam a2200277Ia 4500 TVU_11007 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0195122348 9780195122343 eng 578.4 M393 West-Eberhard, Mary Jane Developmental plasticity and evolution Mary Jane West-Eberhard Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2003 xx, 794 p. ill. 26 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. 639-743) This book solves key problems that have impeded a definitive synthesis in the past. It uses new concepts and specific examples to show how to relate environmentally sensitive development to the genetic theory of adaptive evolution and to explain major patterns of change. In this book development includes not only embryology and the ontogeny of morphology, sometimes portrayed inadequately as governed by "regulatory genes," but also behavioral development and physiological adaptation, where plasticity is mediated by genetically complex mechanisms like hormones and learning Evolution (Biology); Phenotypic plasticity; Developmental biology; Developmental biology Mary Jane West-Eberhard Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh