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Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior: A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches and Trends
Rui Diogo
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Description for Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior: A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches and Trends
Hardback. Num Pages: 252 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 14 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HP; JHM; PSAJ; PSC; PSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
This book proposes a new way to think about evolution. The author carefully brings together evidence from diverse fields of science. In the process, he bridges the gaps between many different--and usually seen as conflicting--ideas to present one integrative theory named ONCE, which stands for Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution. The author argues that evolution is mainly driven by the behavioral choices and persistence of organisms themselves, in a process in which Darwinian natural selection is mainly a secondary--but still crucial--evolutionary player. Within ONCE, evolution is therefore generally made of mistakes and mismatches and trial-and-error situations, and is not a process ... Read more
This book proposes a new way to think about evolution. The author carefully brings together evidence from diverse fields of science. In the process, he bridges the gaps between many different--and usually seen as conflicting--ideas to present one integrative theory named ONCE, which stands for Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution. The author argues that evolution is mainly driven by the behavioral choices and persistence of organisms themselves, in a process in which Darwinian natural selection is mainly a secondary--but still crucial--evolutionary player. Within ONCE, evolution is therefore generally made of mistakes and mismatches and trial-and-error situations, and is not a process ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319475806
SKU
V9783319475806
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99-15
About Rui Diogo
Rui Diogo is an Associate Professor at Howard University College of Medicine and a member of the Resource Faculty at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology at George Washington University. One of the youngest researchers to be nominated as Fellow of the American Association of Anatomists, he won several prestigious awards, being the only researcher to be ... Read more
Reviews for Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior: A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches and Trends
Rui Diogo has published a book that goes against the current in being truly large in scope but also single-authored. ... The book is full of vignettes of ideas and of papers and the alternative explanations the author provides to some of the conclusions of those papers. (Marcelo R. Sa'nchez-Villagra, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, Vol. 137, 2018) ... Read more