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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Characters and Environments.Massimo Pigliucci
Preformationist and epigenetic biases in the history of the morphological character concept.Olivier Rieppel
The mathematical structure of characters and modularity.Junhyong Kim & Minhyong Kim
Characters, units and natural kinds: an introduction.  (pages 1--10)Günter P. Wagner
A history of character concepts in evolutionary biology.  (pages 15--37)Kurt M. Fristrup
Character replication.  (pages 81--107)V. Louise Roth
Characters as the units of evolutionary change.  (pages 109--140)David Houle
The character problem in life history evolution.  (pages 109--140)D. Houle
Character identification: The role of the organism.  (pages 143--165)Gunter P. Wagner & Manfred D. Laubichler
Functional units and their evolution.  (pages 165--198)Kurt Schwenk
The character concept: Adaptationalism to molecular developments.  (pages 201--216)A. Rosenberg
Wholes and parts in general systems methodology.  (pages 237--56)Martin Zwick
What is a part.  (pages 259--284)Daniel W. McShea & Edward P. Venit
Behavioral characters and historical properties of motor patterns.  (pages 285--301)Peter C. Wainwright & John P. Friel
Homology and DNA sequence data.  (pages 303--317)W. C. Wheeler
Character polarity and the rooting of cladograms.  (pages 319--337)Harold N. Bryant
The genetic architecture of pleiotropic relations and differential epistasis.  (pages 411--434)James M. Cheverud
The genetic architecture of pleiotropic relations and differential epistasis.  (pages 411)M. James
Comparative limb development as a tool for understanding the evolutionary diversification of limbs in arthropods: challenging the modularity paradigm.  (pages 455--488)Lisa M. Nagy & Terri A. Williams
Origin of butterfly wing patterns.  (pages 511--529)H. F. Nijhout
Key innovations and radiations.  (pages 581--605)F. Galis

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