Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals

Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals edited by Michael N. Bruton.

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bruton, Michael N. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1989.
Edition:1st ed. 1989.
Series:Perspectives in Vertebrate Science ; 6
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Zoology.
Ecology .
Evolutionary biology.
Animal anatomy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • 1. The Tao of life: from the dynamic unity of polar opposites to self-organization
  • I. Theories, mechanisms and examples
  • 2. Developmental biology and alternative life styles
  • 3. On divergent and progressive evolution
  • 4. Direct and indirect development in fishes — examples of alternative life-history styles
  • 5. Alternative life-history styles in anuran amphibians: evolutionary and ecological implications
  • 6. Alternative life-history styles in reptiles
  • 7. Environmentally guided phenotype plasticity in mammals and some of its consequences to theoretical and applied biology
  • 8. Sex change as an alternative life-history style
  • 9. Environmental restraints and life strategies: a habitat templet matrix
  • 10. Alternative life-history styles of small mammals
  • II. Theories contested or tested
  • 11. Ontogeny and evolution: saltatory or otherwise?
  • 12. Alternative sexual tactics in male bladder grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Pneumoridae)
  • 13. Alternative life-history styles of mutillid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera)
  • 14. Alternative life-history styles in Simuliidae (Insecta, Diptera)
  • 15. The evolution of alternative life styles in Coleoptera
  • 16. Alternative life-history styles in salmonine fishes with emphasis on arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus
  • 17. Metamorphosis in the frog Arthroleptella lightfooti (Anura, Ranidae) with emphasis on neuro-endocrine mechanisms
  • 18. Allometry and the breeding biology of some plovers
  • 19. Alternative life-history styles of South African birds
  • 20. Life-history styles of southern African Mastomys natalensis, Otomys irroratus and Rhabdomys pumilio (Mammalia, Rodentia)
  • 21. The megaherbivore syndrome: alternative life style or different time frame?
  • 22. The constraint of maternal nutrition on the trajectory of fetal growth in humans
  • III. Are new paradigms emerging?
  • 23. The epigenetic mechanisms of bifurcation and alternative life-history styles
  • 24. The ecological significance of alternative life-history styles
  • Transcript of discussions
  • What is the difference between neo-Darwinism and epigenetics?
  • The Okavango debate on bifurcation
  • List of contributors
  • Scientific and subject index.

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