Robustness, Plasticity, and Evolvability in Mammals A Thermal Niche Approach

Robustness, Plasticity, and Evolvability in Mammals A Thermal Niche Approach / by Clara B. Jones.

Among the unresolved topics in evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology are the origins, mechanisms, evolution, and consequences of developmental and phenotypic diversity. In an attempt to address these challenges, plasticity has been investigated empirically and theoretically at all levels of bi...

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Main Author: Jones, Clara B. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Evolutionary biology.
Animal ecology.
Developmental biology.
Animal genetics.
Animal physiology.
Biodiversity.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.  Introduction: What paths to mean reproductive success of individuals and shifting mean fitness of mammalian populations?
  • 2.  Mammals: From humble vertebrate beginnings to global terrestrial dominance
  • 3.  Variability of mammalian thermal niches: Differential effects of local and global environmental heterogeneity
  • 4.  Robustness and polyphenisms in mammals: ?Core processes?, repatterning, ?constrained variation?, and ?regulatory logic?
  • 5.  Learning may generate phenotypic variability in heterogeneous regimes
  • 6. Discussion: Stimulus ? Response ? Stimulus
  • 7. Synopsis
  • References.

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