INTERPRETING THE HIERARCHY OF NATURE

Grande, Lance, O. Rieppel (Editors)

ISBN 10: 0122951204 / ISBN 13: 9780122951206

Published by Academic Press, 1994

About this Item

(1994) viii, 298 pp., a few figs. (San Diego: Academic Press) Hardcover / no dustjacket issued. Withdrawn library copy with markings. A clean, neat library copy (it was never checked out).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: INTERPRETING THE HIERARCHY OF NATURE
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0122951204
• ISBN 13: 9780122951206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This book explores ways in which systematic patterns are used to infer evolutionary processes. Among evolutionary biologists and systematists there is a constant interchange between those that study the process of evolution (e.g., mutation, selection, speciation) and those that study its patterns (e.g., variation, geographic distribution, ontogeny, phylogeny). Because patterns influence the development of theories, and processes yield patterns, it is not always easy to distinguish one from another. This book is dialectic and helps crystallize a continuing debate over the relationship of patterns to process theories.

• Contributions by leading systematists, evolutionary biologists, and philosophers
• Illustrates the debate over how and if evolutionary processes can be inferred from systematic patterns
• Illustrates a continuing interplay between systematics and evolutionary theory

From the Back Cover

This book explores ways in which systematic patterns are used to infer evolutionary processes. Among evolutionary biologists and systematists there is a constant interchange between those that study the process of evolution (e.g., mutation, selection, speciation) and those that study its patterns (e.g., variation, geographic distribution, ontogeny, phylogeny). Because patterns influence the development of theories, and processes yield patterns, it is not always easy to distinguish one from another. This book is dialectic and helps crystallize a continuing debate over the relationship of patterns to process theories.
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@bul:* Contributions by leading systematists, evolutionary biologists, and philosophers
* Illustrates the debate over how and if evolutionary processes can be inferred from systematic patterns
* Illustrates a continuing interplay between systematics and evolutionary theory