A New Paradigm for the Conquest of Land by Vertebrates That Includes Exaptations.

A New Paradigm for the Conquest of Land by Vertebrates That Includes Exaptations.

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A new view for studying and understanding biological evolution emerges when the concepts of phylogenetic systematics and exaptation are combined. A new definition of macroevolution is created. Preadaptation is shown to be a null concept and its comparison with exaptation is shown to be inappropriate...

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Triques, Mauro Luís.
TeilnehmendeR:
Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey.
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.
©2023.
Year of Publication:2024
2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (244 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • On Illustrations
  • Illustrations
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Notes for Reading This book
  • 1 Phylogenetic Systematics or Cladistics, Introductory Information
  • 1 From Darwin to Hennig
  • 2 Which Animals Are We Dealing With?
  • 3 The Skeleton
  • 2 Adaptive Scenarios
  • 3 Adaptationism, Microevolution, Macroevolution, and Exaptation
  • 4 Monophyly and Geological Time as Counter-arguments
  • 1 Monophyly of Terrestrial Vertebrates
  • 2 The Geologic Time Gap
  • 3 The Extreme Diversity of the Actinopterygii
  • 4 The Phyletic Nature of †Placoderms and †Acanthodians
  • 5 Method Based on Cladistics: New Perspectives
  • 1 Criticisms of Adaptationism
  • 2 Characters
  • 3 Life Styles
  • 4 The Issue of Topology
  • 5 The Origins of Limbs with Digits, Walking, and Terrestriality
  • 6 Recent Phylogenies of Basal Tetrapoda Reveal an Additional Argument
  • 7 Exaptation: Misunderstandings of the Concept
  • 8 Complementary Considerations
  • 6 Geological Time, Morphology, and Ecology
  • 1 Characters
  • 2 Abrupt Appearance of Several Characters
  • 3 Evolutionary Space for Independent New Invasions of Land by Vertebrates after the Devonian
  • 7 Absence of Correlation among Characters and Asynchrony in Their Origins as Additional Arguments
  • 8 Synergy among Arguments and Summary Considerations of the Main Arguments
  • 9 Exaptations, Not Preadaptations, at the Origin of Terrestriality in Vertebrates
  • 10 Science and Its Limits
  • 1 A Statement on Scientific Paradigms
  • 2 A View on the Sociology of Science
  • 3 Epilogue
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index.

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