The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited
Brett Calcott & Kim Sterelny (eds.)
MIT Press (2011)
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Drawing on recent advances in evolutionary biology, prominent scholars return to the question posed in a pathbreaking book: how evolution itself evolved.Author's Profile
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0262015242 9780262015240
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The small picture approach to the big picture: using DNA sequences to investigate the diversification of animal body plans.Lindell Bromham
Phylogenetic, functional and geological perspectives on complex multicellularity.Andrew H. Knoll & David Hewitt
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