Table of Contents

ForewordChapter 1. Variation and Variability: Central Concepts in BiologyChapter 2. Variation from Darwin to the Modern SynthesisChapter 3. The Statistics of VariationChapter 4. Landmark Morphometrics and the Analysis of VariationChapter 5. Variation in OntogenyChapter 6. Constraints on Variation from Genotype through Phenotype to FitnessChapter 7. Developmental Origins of VariationChapter 8. Canalization, Cryptic Variation and Developmental Buffering: A Critical Examination and Analytical PerspectiveChapter 9. Mutation and Phenotypic Variation: Where is the connection Capacitators, Stressors, Phenotypic Variability and Evolutionary ChangeChapter 10. Within Individual Variation: Developmental Noise versus Developmental StabilityChapter 11. Developmental Constraints, Modules and EvolvabilityChapter 12. Developmental Regulation of VariabilityChapter 13. Role of Stress in Evolution: From Individual Adaptability to Evolutionary AdaptationChapter 14. Environmentally Contingent Variation: Phenotypic Plasticity and Norms of ReactionChapter 15. Variation and Life History EvolutionChapter 16. AntisymmetryChapter 17. Variation in Structure and its Relationship to Function: Correlation, Explanation and ExtrapolationChapter 18. A Universal Generative Tendency Toward Increased Organismal ComplexityChapter 19. Variation and Versatility in MacroevolutionChapter 20. Variation and Developmental Biology: Prospects for the FutureChapter 21. Phenogenetics: Genotypes, Phenotypes, and VariationChapter 22. The Study of Phenotypic VariabilityIndex