The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology

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Academic Press (2000)
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" Because characters and the conception of characters are central to all studies of evolution, and because evolution is the central organizing principle of biology, this book will appeal to a wide cross-section of biologists.

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Character polarity and the rooting of cladograms.Harold N. Bryant
The genetic architecture of pleiotropic relations and differential epistasis.James M. Cheverud
A history of character concepts in evolutionary biology.Kurt M. Fristrup
Key innovations and radiations.F. Galis
Characters as the units of evolutionary change.David Houle
The character problem in life history evolution.D. Houle
The genetic architecture of pleiotropic relations and differential epistasis.M. James
The mathematical structure of characters and modularity.Junhyong Kim & Minhyong Kim
What is a part.Daniel W. McShea & Edward P. Venit
Comparative limb development as a tool for understanding the evolutionary diversification of limbs in arthropods: challenging the modularity paradigm.Lisa M. Nagy & Terri A. Williams
Origin of butterfly wing patterns.H. F. Nijhout
Characters and Environments.Massimo Pigliucci
Preformationist and epigenetic biases in the history of the morphological character concept.Olivier Rieppel
The character concept: Adaptationalism to molecular developments.A. Rosenberg
Character replication.V. Louise Roth
Functional units and their evolution.Kurt Schwenk
Character identification: The role of the organism.Gunter P. Wagner & Manfred D. Laubichler
Characters, units and natural kinds: an introduction.Günter P. Wagner
Behavioral characters and historical properties of motor patterns.Peter C. Wainwright & John P. Friel
Homology and DNA sequence data.W. C. Wheeler
Wholes and parts in general systems methodology.Martin Zwick

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