Evolution from the Galapagos Two Centuries after Darwin /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Trueba, Gabriel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Montúfar, Carlos (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands, 2
• Θέματα: Geography.; Ecosystems.; Evolutionary biology.; Nature conservation.; Geography, general.; Nature Conservation.; Evolutionary Biology.

In 2001 Lynn Margulis visited the main campus of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito to give the commencement address and to travel to the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in the Ecuadorian Amazonia.  We felt privileged to be part of her entourage for this trip to the rainforest and to have the oppo...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword
• Part I: Historical Perspectives
• Darwin-Wallace paradigm shift: The ten days that failed to shake the world
• From Copernicus to Darwin
• Part II: A Microbial World
• A Vestige of an RNA Apparatus with Ribozyme Capabilities Embedded and Functions within the Modern Ribosome
• Covering all the Bases: the Promise of Genome-Wide Sequence Data for Large Population Samples of Bacteria
• Role of Symbiosis in Evolution
• Part III: Early Eukaryotes
• The Evolutionary Origin of Animals and Fungi
• Written in stone: The fossil record of early eukaryotes
• Endosymbiosis in the origin of eukaryotes
• Symbiogenetics: Proposal for a new science
• Part IV: A Planet of Animals and Plants
• Epochal change: sweltering climate at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary (55 million years ago)
• Speciation and evolution of Darwin’s finches
• Ecological Selection and the Evolution of Body Size and Sexual Size Dimorphism in the Galapagos Flightless Cormorant
• Index.