Epigenetic Principles of Evolution
This is the first and only book, so far, to deal with the causal basis of evolution from an epigenetic view. By revealing the epigenetic "user" of the "genetic toolkit", this book demonstrates the primacy of epigenetic mechanisms and epigenetic information in generating evolutionary novelties. The author convincingly supports his theory with a host of examples from the most varied fields of biology, by emphasizing changes in developmental pathways as the basic source of evolutionary change in metazoans. - Original and thought provoking--a radically new theory that overcomes the present difficulties of the theory of evolution - Is the first and only theory that uses epigenetic mechanisms and principles for explaining evolution of metazoans - Takes an integrative approach and shows a wide range of learning
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Epigenetic Principles of Evolution
This is the first and only book, so far, to deal with the causal basis of evolution from an epigenetic view. By revealing the epigenetic "user" of the "genetic toolkit", this book demonstrates the primacy of epigenetic mechanisms and epigenetic information in generating evolutionary novelties. The author convincingly supports his theory with a host of examples from the most varied fields of biology, by emphasizing changes in developmental pathways as the basic source of evolutionary change in metazoans. - Original and thought provoking--a radically new theory that overcomes the present difficulties of the theory of evolution - Is the first and only theory that uses epigenetic mechanisms and principles for explaining evolution of metazoans - Takes an integrative approach and shows a wide range of learning
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Epigenetic Principles of Evolution

Epigenetic Principles of Evolution

by Nelson R Cabej
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Epigenetic Principles of Evolution

Epigenetic Principles of Evolution

by Nelson R Cabej

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This is the first and only book, so far, to deal with the causal basis of evolution from an epigenetic view. By revealing the epigenetic "user" of the "genetic toolkit", this book demonstrates the primacy of epigenetic mechanisms and epigenetic information in generating evolutionary novelties. The author convincingly supports his theory with a host of examples from the most varied fields of biology, by emphasizing changes in developmental pathways as the basic source of evolutionary change in metazoans. - Original and thought provoking--a radically new theory that overcomes the present difficulties of the theory of evolution - Is the first and only theory that uses epigenetic mechanisms and principles for explaining evolution of metazoans - Takes an integrative approach and shows a wide range of learning

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ISBN-13: 9780124158511
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Publication date: 11/22/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 846
File size: 13 MB
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About the Author

Nelson R. Cabej earned his PhD in biology at the University of Tirana, Albania, and currently serves as a researcher in the Department of Biology at the same university. His scientific career began with research in the fields of epizootiology, immunology and molecular biology at the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Tirana, Albania. He also previously taught general biology at the University of Tirana and William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey, USA. He has published more than 50 scientific articles and 20 books in the fields of evolutionary biology, epigenetics, developmental biology and philosophy of biology, including 4 books with Elsevier: Building The Most Complex Structure On Earth (2013); Epigenetic Principles of Evolution, Second Edition (2018); Epigenetic Mechanisms of the Cambrian Explosion (2019); and The Inductive Brain in Development and Evolution (2021).

Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Epigenetic Basis of Metazoan Heredity - Control Systems and Determination of Phenotypic Traits in Metazoans - Neural Manipulation of Gene Expression - Epigenetic Control of Reproduction - Epigenetic Control of Early Development - Neural Control of Postphylotypic Development - The Epigenetic System of Heredity – An Outline Part 2: Neural-Developmental Premises of Evolutionary Adaptation - Evolution and Stress Responses to Changes in Environment - Behavioral Adaptation to Changed Conditions of Living - Ontology: The Workshop of Evolutionary Change - Intragenerational Developmental Plasticity Part 3: Epigenetics of Circumevolutionary Phenomena and the Mechansim of the Evolutionary Change - Transgenerational Developmental Plasticity – An Epitome of Evolutionary Change - Evolution of Metazoans and Their Control System Part 4: Epigenetics of Metazoan Evolution - Origins of Evolutionary Novelty - Evolution by Loss - Evolution by Reverting to Ancestral Characters - Neural Crest-Determined Evolutionary Novelties - Evolutionary Convergences: The Trend Toward Sameness in Metazoan Evolution - Species and Allopatric Speciaition - Epigentics of Sympatric Speciation – Speciation as a Mechanism of Evolution

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