Description
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.
Readership
Evolutionary biologists, developmental biologists and ecologists
Epigenetic Principles of Evolution, 1st Edition
0. Introduction - The Explanatory Conundrum and the New Perspective in Modern Biology
Part One: Epigenetic Basis of Metazoan Heredity
1. Control Systems And Determination Of Phenotypic Traits In Metazoans
2. Neural Manipulation Of Gene Expression
3. Epigenetic Control Of Reproduction
4. Epigenetic Control Of Early Development
5. Neural Control Of Post-Phylotypic Development
6. The Epigenetic System Of Inheritance - An Outline
Part 2: Neural Developmental Premises of Evolutionary Adaption
7. Evolution And Stress Responses To Changes In Environment
8. Behavioral Adaptation To Changed Conditions Of Living
9. Ontogeny: the workshop of evolutionary change
10. Intragenerational Developmental Plasticity
Part 3: Epigenetics of Circumevolutionary Phenomena and the Mechanism of the Evolutionary Change
11. Transgenerational Developmental Plasticity - An Epitome Of Evolutionary Change
12. Evolution Of Metazoans And Their Control System
Part Four: Epigenetics of Metazoan Evolution
13. Origins Of Evolutionary Novelty
14. Evolution By Loss
15. Evolution By Reverting To Ancestral Characters
16. Neural Crest-Determined Evolutionary Novelties
17. Evolutionary Convergences: The Trend Toward Sameness In Metazoan Evolution
18. Species And Allopatric Speciation
19. Epigenetics Of Sympatric Speciation - Speciation As A Mechanism Of Evolution
