Convergent Evolution
Limited Forms Most Beautiful
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- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2011
Summary
An analysis of convergent evolution from molecules to ecosystems, demonstrating the limited number of evolutionary pathways available to life.
Charles Darwin famously concluded On the Origin of Species with a vision of “endless forms most beautiful” continually evolving. More than 150 years later many evolutionary biologists see not endless forms but the same, or very similar, forms evolving repeatedly in many independent species lineages. A porpoise’s fishlike fins, for examp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262539098 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262539098 |
| Author: | George R. McGhee Jr. |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2011 |
| Weight: | 666g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology |
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Critics Review
Convergent Evolution is a timely synthesis—an engaging book that will surely be widely read and discussed among evolutionists.
—Jan Sapp, BioScienceGeorge R. McGhee Jr.
George McGhee is Distinguished Professor of Paleobiology in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers University and a Member of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Klosterneuburg, Austria. He is the author of Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful (MIT Press)
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