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Evolution from the Galapagos : two centuries after Darwin
- Title
- Evolution from the Galapagos : two centuries after Darwin / Gabriel Trueba, Carlos Montúfar, editors.
- Publication
- New York : Springer, [2013]
- ©2013
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xviii, 168 pages : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits (chiefly color); 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Social and ecological interactions in the Galapagos Islands, 2195-1055 ; [2]
- Uniform Title
- Social and ecological interactions in the Galapagos Islands ; 2.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Second book in the Galapagos Book Series"--Foreword.
- Selected papers presented at the first (2005) and second (2009) World Summit on Evolution meetings, held at GAIAS (Galapagos Academic Institute for the Arts and Sciences), part of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, on the island of San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands. (Preface)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Darwin-Wallace paradigm shift / Ricardo Guerrero and Lynn Margulis -- From Copernicus to Darwin (1473-1882) / Carlos Montúfar -- How did life originate? / Antonio Lazcano -- A vestige of an RNA apparatus with ribozyme capabilities embedded and functions within the modern ribosome / Ada Yonath -- Covering all the bases : the promise of genome-wide sequence data for large population samples of bacteria / Santiago Castillo-Ramírez and Edward J. Feil -- Role of symbiosis in evolution / Amparo Latorre and Andrés Moya -- The evolutionary origin of animals and fungi / Sandra Baldauf, Maria Romeralo and Martin Carr -- Written in stone : the fossil record of early eukaryotes / Shuhai Xiao -- Endosymbiosis and the origin of eukaryotes / Michael F. Dolan -- Epochal change : sweltering climate at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary (55 million years ago) / Bruce Scofield -- Insight into speciation from long-term research on Darwin's finches / Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant -- Ecological selection and the evolution of body size and sexual size dimorphism in the Galapagos flightless cormorant / Carlos A. Valle.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-2485
- ISBN
- 9781461467311
- 1461467314
- OCLC
- 825737692
- Title
- Evolution from the Galapagos : two centuries after Darwin / Gabriel Trueba, Carlos Montúfar, editors.
- Publisher
- New York : Springer, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Social and ecological interactions in the Galapagos Islands, 2195-1055 ; [2]Social and ecological interactions in the Galapagos Islands ; 2.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Trueba, Gabriel, editor.Montúfar, Carlos, editor.Universidad San Francisco de Quito.World Summit on Evolution (1st : 2005 : Galapagos Academic Institute for the Arts and Sciences)World Summit on Evolution (2nd : 2009 : Galapagos Academic Institute for the Arts and Sciences)
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-2485