Tempo and Mode in Evolution / / George Gaylord Simpson.
Studies the rate and determinants of evolution including micro, macro and mega evolution.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1984] ©1984 |
| Year of Publication: | 1984 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction: Forty Years Later
- Introduction
- Chapter I: Rates of Evolution
- Chapter II: Determinants of Evolution
- Chapter III: Micro-Evolution, Macro-Evolutiony and Mega-Evolution
- Chapter IV: Low-Rate and High-Rate Lines
- Chapter V: Inertia, Trend, and Momentum
- Chapter VI: Organism and Environment
- Chapter VII: Modes of Evolution
- Works Cited
- Index