Rates of Evolution (Paperback)

Preface 1 Major Features of the Fossil Record and Their Implications for Evolutionary Rate Studies, D.M. Raup 2. The Timing of Major Evolutionary Innovations from the Origin of Life to the Origins of the Metaphya and Metazoa: The Geological Evidence, M.R. Walter 3. Rates and Modes of Evolution in the Mollusca, B. Runnegar 4. Rates of Evolution Among Palaeozoic Echinoderms, K.S.W. Campbell and C.R. Marshall 5. The Initial Radiation and Rise to Dominance of the Angiosperms, E.M. Truswell 6. Selection or Constraint?: A Proposal on the Mechanism for Stasis, P.G. Williamson 7. Development Pathways and Evolutionary Rates, D.T. Anderson 8. Population Biology and Evolutionary Change, I.R. Franklin 9. Comparative Rates of Molecular, Chromosomal and Morphological Evolution in Some Australian Vertebrates, P.R. Baverstock and M. Adams 10. Evolution of Gene Structure in Relation to Function, J.A. Thomson 11. Popular Genetics, Evolutionary Rates and Neo-Darwinism, H.L. Carson 12. Genetic Systems and Evolutionary Rates, A.R. Templeton 13. The Origin, Nature and Significance of Genetic Variation in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes, D.C. Reanney 14. Old and New Theories of Evolution, J. Langridge 15. From Genome to Phenotype, G.L.G. Miklos and B. John 16. The New Gene and its Evolution, J.H. Campbell Index