Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior: A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches and Trends

by Rui Diogo

PrefaceDedicationAcknowledgements1. Introduction to Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution (ONCE) and Notes on Terminology2. Baldwin's Organic Selection and the Rising Awareness of the Evolutionary Importance of Behavioral Shifts3. Behavioral Choices and Shifts, Niche Construction, Natural Selection, Extinctions, and Asymmetry4. Evolutionary Trends, Sexual Selection, Novelties, Gene Loss, Mass Extinctions and 'Progress'5. Behavioral Leads in Evolution--Form, Function, Exaptations, Human Evolution and Lamarck6. Eco-morphological Mismatches, Human 'Exceptionalism', Hybridization, Trade-offs and Nonoptimality7. Internal Selection, Constraints, Contingency, Homology, Reversions, Atavisms, von Baer, Haeckel, and Alberch8. ONCE Links Internal Factors, Epigenetics, Matsuda, Waddington, Goldschmidt, and Macroevolution9. ONCE Things Are Put Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology, Adaptationism, Systems Biology, and Interdisciplinary10. General Remarks and Bullet Points11. References12. Index

Genres: Evolution

272 pages, Paperback

Published March 10, 2017

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