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• catalog contributor b1375917.
• catalog created "1977.".
• catalog date "1977".
• catalog date "1977.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1977.".
• catalog description "5. Evolution and natural selection : The notion of selection ; Selection during ontogeny ; Selection and accident ; Selective elimination ; Is competition universal? ; Selection and demography ; Artificial selection by man (cultivation and domestication) ; Errors or inabilities of selection ; Natural selection, or finality in action ; Conclusions -- 6. Evolution and adaptation : General remarks ; Relation of adaptation to selection ; The limits of adaptation ; Not all is for the best in living things ; Faulty evolution ; Indifferent or useless organs ; Unfavorable characteristics and hypertelies ; Equilibrium of organism with environment and adaptation ; Variations caused by the environment and the action of the genes according to the environment ; Preadaptation and selection in closed environments ; Preadaptation and its role ; Coaptation and adaptation of unlike parts ; Finality and adaptation -- 7. Evolution and necessity : What biological necessity is: confusion with usefulness ; Necessity and persistence of "stock forms" ; Necessity, selection, and heterogeneous populations ; Necessity and the genesis of the major types of organization ; The animal creates its own necessity ; Necessity-utility: not the prime motive of biological evolution".
• catalog description "8. Activities of the genes in relation to evolution : Introduction ; Exploring the genome ; Genesis of new species through recombination of genes -- 9. A new introduction of evolutionary phenomena : Introduction ; Internal factors in evolution and the creative reactivity of living things ; The creation of the new ; Size and new characteristics ; Independence and preeminence of DNA ; The intangibility of DNA and the central dogma ; Acquisition of the information by the organism ; Repetition of the same gene, and redundancy ; Formation of new genes and problems it raises ; Synthesis of nucleic acids and molecular acquisition of information ; Viral transduction and transfer of alien information ; Novelty by emergence ; Conclusion.".
• catalog description "An introduction to the study of evolution : General observations on the living world ; Biological evolution and its occurrences ; Interpretation of evolutionary facts -- 1. From the simple to the complex -- progressive evolution, regressive evolution : Increasing complexity as a function of time ; Chronological order of appearance ; Regressive evolution ; The limits of evolution -- 2. Creative evolution, or the appearance of types of organization : General remarks ; The appearance of a major pattern of organization: the mammals ; From captorhinomorphs to pelycosaurs ; Theriodonts: mammalian ancestors ; The cynodont line ; "Premammalian" reptiles derived from the cynodonts ; The therocephalia-bauriamorpha ; Ictidosaurs, other "premammalian" reptiles ; The evolution of the jaw musculature ; Summary of the mammalian characters of therapsids and of their ancestors, the pelycosaurs ; A comparison of the respective characters of mammalian reptiles and early mammals: gradual transition from one class to the other ; The characteristics of creative evolution in theraspid reptiles ; The mammals: a homogeneous or a heterogeneous class? ; Conclusion -- 3. Evolution -- a discontinuous historical phenomenon : Evolutionary discontinuity ; The Miocene: an epoch of reference ; The dampening of evolution ; The genealogical tree of the animal kingdom ; The parent forms and the creation of novelties ; Panchronic forms and arrested evolution ; Persistence of evolution ; Speciation, the only present form of evolution ; Evolution is the real history of life ; Conclusion -- 4. Evolution and chance : The lottery of life ; Chance and its instrument, mutation, or the errors of the genetic code ; Biological order and antichance ; Random preadaptation ; Chance and evolutionary trends ; Chance and organic trends ; Chance and organic complexity".
• catalog description "Bibliography: p. 262-277.".
• catalog extent "x, 297 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Evolution of living organisms.".
• catalog identifier "0122955501".
• catalog isFormatOf "Evolution of living organisms.".
• catalog issued "1977".
• catalog issued "1977.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog language "engfre".
• catalog publisher "New York : Academic Press,".
• catalog relation "Evolution of living organisms.".
• catalog subject "Biological Evolution.".
• catalog subject "Evolution (Biology)".
• catalog subject "Evolution.".
• catalog subject "QH 366.2 G768e 1977".
• catalog subject "QH366.2 .G713".
• catalog tableOfContents "5. Evolution and natural selection : The notion of selection ; Selection during ontogeny ; Selection and accident ; Selective elimination ; Is competition universal? ; Selection and demography ; Artificial selection by man (cultivation and domestication) ; Errors or inabilities of selection ; Natural selection, or finality in action ; Conclusions -- 6. Evolution and adaptation : General remarks ; Relation of adaptation to selection ; The limits of adaptation ; Not all is for the best in living things ; Faulty evolution ; Indifferent or useless organs ; Unfavorable characteristics and hypertelies ; Equilibrium of organism with environment and adaptation ; Variations caused by the environment and the action of the genes according to the environment ; Preadaptation and selection in closed environments ; Preadaptation and its role ; Coaptation and adaptation of unlike parts ; Finality and adaptation -- 7. Evolution and necessity : What biological necessity is: confusion with usefulness ; Necessity and persistence of "stock forms" ; Necessity, selection, and heterogeneous populations ; Necessity and the genesis of the major types of organization ; The animal creates its own necessity ; Necessity-utility: not the prime motive of biological evolution".
• catalog tableOfContents "8. Activities of the genes in relation to evolution : Introduction ; Exploring the genome ; Genesis of new species through recombination of genes -- 9. A new introduction of evolutionary phenomena : Introduction ; Internal factors in evolution and the creative reactivity of living things ; The creation of the new ; Size and new characteristics ; Independence and preeminence of DNA ; The intangibility of DNA and the central dogma ; Acquisition of the information by the organism ; Repetition of the same gene, and redundancy ; Formation of new genes and problems it raises ; Synthesis of nucleic acids and molecular acquisition of information ; Viral transduction and transfer of alien information ; Novelty by emergence ; Conclusion.".
• catalog tableOfContents "An introduction to the study of evolution : General observations on the living world ; Biological evolution and its occurrences ; Interpretation of evolutionary facts -- 1. From the simple to the complex -- progressive evolution, regressive evolution : Increasing complexity as a function of time ; Chronological order of appearance ; Regressive evolution ; The limits of evolution -- 2. Creative evolution, or the appearance of types of organization : General remarks ; The appearance of a major pattern of organization: the mammals ; From captorhinomorphs to pelycosaurs ; Theriodonts: mammalian ancestors ; The cynodont line ; "Premammalian" reptiles derived from the cynodonts ; The therocephalia-bauriamorpha ; Ictidosaurs, other "premammalian" reptiles ; The evolution of the jaw musculature ; Summary of the mammalian characters of therapsids and of their ancestors, the pelycosaurs ; A comparison of the respective characters of mammalian reptiles and early mammals: gradual transition from one class to the other ; The characteristics of creative evolution in theraspid reptiles ; The mammals: a homogeneous or a heterogeneous class? ; Conclusion -- 3. Evolution -- a discontinuous historical phenomenon : Evolutionary discontinuity ; The Miocene: an epoch of reference ; The dampening of evolution ; The genealogical tree of the animal kingdom ; The parent forms and the creation of novelties ; Panchronic forms and arrested evolution ; Persistence of evolution ; Speciation, the only present form of evolution ; Evolution is the real history of life ; Conclusion -- 4. Evolution and chance : The lottery of life ; Chance and its instrument, mutation, or the errors of the genetic code ; Biological order and antichance ; Random preadaptation ; Chance and evolutionary trends ; Chance and organic trends ; Chance and organic complexity".
• catalog title "Evolution of living organisms : evidence for a new theory of transformation / Pierre P. Grassé.".
• catalog type "text".