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A concise study of spines that reveals how these projections illuminate evolution and adaptation.
Spun from the author’s analysis, this volume explains that spines arise from multiple forces—environmental stimuli, growth dynamics, and gradual differentiation—and may shift in function over time. It argues that the meaning of spines lies in what they represent: stages of development, levels of organismal differentiation, and measures of an animal’s or plant’s adaptability to its surroundings.
- Learn how spines can originate well before they serve any protective purpose, then become defensive or offensive tools.
- Explore how variation works in evolution, including the law of variation and the multiplication of effects.
- See examples across many groups, from crustaceans and mollusks to fishes, reptiles, insects, and even extinct dinosaurs.
- Understand how spinose traits can become fixed in lineages and what that implies about the limits of morphological change.
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