Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior

Preface.- Dedication.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction to Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution (ONCE) and Notes on Terminology.- Baldwin's Organic Selection and the Rising Awareness of the Evolutionary Importance of Behavioral Shifts.- Behavioral Choices and Shifts, Niche Construction, Natural Selection, Extinctions, and Asymmetry.- Evolutionary Trends, Sexual Selection, Novelties, Gene Loss, Mass Extinctions and 'Progress'.- Behavioral Leads in Evolution--Form, Function, Exaptations, Human Evolution and Lamarck.- Eco-morphological Mismatches, Human 'Exceptionalism', Hybridization, Trade-offs and Nonoptimality.- Internal Selection, Constraints, Contingency, Homology, Reversions, Atavisms, von Baer, Haeckel, and Alberch.- ONCE Links Internal Factors, Epigenetics, Matsuda, Waddington, Goldschmidt, and Macroevolution.- ONCE Things Are Put Together: Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology, Adaptationism, Systems Biology, and Interdisciplinary.- General Remarks and Bullet Points.- References.- Index.

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• Biologia do desenvolvimento
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Developmental constraints;Ecology;Phylogeny;Ecomorphology;Evolutionary trends;Canalization;Natural selection;Niche construction;Internal selection;Sexual selection;Evolution;Evolutionary developmental biology;Organismal behavior