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Robustness, Plasticity, and Evolvability in Mammals [electronic resource] : A Thermal Niche Approach / by Clara B. Jones.

By: Jones, Clara B [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology: Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012Description: XIII, 108 p. 14 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781461438854.Subject(s): Life sciences | Developmental biology | Animal ecology | Biodiversity | Evolution (Biology) | Animal genetics | Animal Physiology | Life Sciences | Evolutionary Biology | Animal Ecology | Developmental Biology | Animal Genetics and Genomics | Animal Physiology | BiodiversityDDC classification: 576.8 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
1.  Introduction: What paths to mean reproductive success of individuals and shifting mean fitness of mammalian populations? -- 2.  Mammals: From humble vertebrate beginnings to global terrestrial dominance -- 3.  Variability of mammalian thermal niches: Differential effects of local and global environmental heterogeneity -- 4.  Robustness and polyphenisms in mammals: ?Core processes?, repatterning, ?constrained variation?, and ?regulatory logic? -- 5.  Learning may generate phenotypic variability in heterogeneous regimes -- 6. Discussion: Stimulus ? Response ? Stimulus -- 7. Synopsis -- References.
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1.  Introduction: What paths to mean reproductive success of individuals and shifting mean fitness of mammalian populations? -- 2.  Mammals: From humble vertebrate beginnings to global terrestrial dominance -- 3.  Variability of mammalian thermal niches: Differential effects of local and global environmental heterogeneity -- 4.  Robustness and polyphenisms in mammals: ?Core processes?, repatterning, ?constrained variation?, and ?regulatory logic? -- 5.  Learning may generate phenotypic variability in heterogeneous regimes -- 6. Discussion: Stimulus ? Response ? Stimulus -- 7. Synopsis -- References.

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