Author: George Ledyard StebbinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
Variation and Evolution in Plants
Author: George Ledyard StebbinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
Plant Variation and Evolution
Author: David BriggsVariation and Evolution in Plants
Author: George Ledyard StebbinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780231017336
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
Variation and Evolution in Plants is a book written by G. Ledyard Stebbins, published in 1950. It is one of the key publications embodying the modern evolutionary synthesis, as the first comprehensive publication to discuss the relationship between genetics and natural selection in plants. The book has been described by plant systematist Peter H. Raven as "the most important book on plant evolution of the 20th century" and it remains one of the most cited texts on plant evolution.
Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms
Author: National Academy of SciencesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309070996
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"The present book is intended as a progress report on [the] synthetic approach to evolution as it applies to the plant kingdom." With this simple statement, G. Ledyard Stebbins formulated the objectives of Variation and Evolution in Plants, published in 1950, setting forth for plants what became known as the "synthetic theory of evolution" or "the modern synthesis." The pervading conceit of the book was the molding of Darwin's evolution by natural selection within the framework of rapidly advancing genetic knowledge. At the time, Variation and Evolution in Plants significantly extended the scope of the science of plants. Plants, with their unique genetic, physiological, and evolutionary features, had all but been left completely out of the synthesis until that point. Fifty years later, the National Academy of Sciences convened a colloquium to update the advances made by Stebbins. This collection of 17 papers marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Stebbins' classic. Organized into five sections, the book covers: early evolution and the origin of cells, virus and bacterial models, protoctist models, population variation, and trends and patterns in plant evolution.
Plant Variation and Evolution
Author: David BriggsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521459181
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Considers how the study of variation in plants has developed over the last 300 years.
Plant Evolution
Author: Karl J. NiklasPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022634228X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Although plants comprise more than 90% of all visible life, and land plants and algae collectively make up the most morphologically, physiologically, and ecologically diverse group of organisms on earth, books on evolution instead tend to focus on animals. This organismal bias has led to an incomplete and often erroneous understanding of evolutionary theory. Because plants grow and reproduce differently than animals, they have evolved differently, and generally accepted evolutionary views—as, for example, the standard models of speciation—often fail to hold when applied to them. Tapping such wide-ranging topics as genetics, gene regulatory networks, phenotype mapping, and multicellularity, as well as paleobotany, Karl J. Niklas’s Plant Evolution offers fresh insight into these differences. Following up on his landmark book The Evolutionary Biology of Plants—in which he drew on cutting-edge computer simulations that used plants as models to illuminate key evolutionary theories—Niklas incorporates data from more than a decade of new research in the flourishing field of molecular biology, conveying not only why the study of evolution is so important, but also why the study of plants is essential to our understanding of evolutionary processes. Niklas shows us that investigating the intricacies of plant development, the diversification of early vascular land plants, and larger patterns in plant evolution is not just a botanical pursuit: it is vital to our comprehension of the history of all life on this green planet.
Variation and Evolution in Plants
Author: The Role of Chromosomal Change in Plant Evolution
Author: Donald A. LevinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195138603
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Genome, heterozygosity, polyploidy, phenotype, genes, euploid, aneuploid.
Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean
Author: John D. ThompsonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198515340
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean integrates a diverse and scattered literature to produce a synthetic account of plant evolutionary ecology. The central theme is differentiation, both among and within species in the contemporary flora of the Mediterranean basin. This approach is developed by attempting to link population processes to species evolution, and by examining the variation and evolution of ecological function in the context of spatial habitat variation and regional history. This accessible text explores the evolutionary processes which have shaped plant evolution in the context of these major influences on vegetation.
Author: