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On the Origins and Dynamics of Biodiversity
Alain Pave
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Hardback. Exploring the biological and ecological aspects of biodiversity, this volume evaluates the role that chance plays in the evolutionary process. The text aims to outline a biological theory of biodiversity, examining the topic at all scales and levels. Num Pages: 178 pages, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: RNCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1010.
Chance is necessary for living systems – from the cell to organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems. It is at the heart of their evolution and diversity. Long considered contingent on other factors, chance both produces random events in the environment, and is the product of endogenous mechanisms - molecular as well as cellular, demographic and ecological. This is how living things have been able to diversify themselves and survive on the planet. Chance is not something to which Life has been subjected; it is quite simply necessary for Life. The endogenous mechanisms that bring it about are at once the ... Read more
Chance is necessary for living systems – from the cell to organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems. It is at the heart of their evolution and diversity. Long considered contingent on other factors, chance both produces random events in the environment, and is the product of endogenous mechanisms - molecular as well as cellular, demographic and ecological. This is how living things have been able to diversify themselves and survive on the planet. Chance is not something to which Life has been subjected; it is quite simply necessary for Life. The endogenous mechanisms that bring it about are at once the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441962430
SKU
V9781441962430
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