Shaking The Tree - Readings From Nature In The History Of Life -

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Résumé :
Nature has published news about the history of life ever since its first issue in 1869, in which T. H. Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog") wrote about Triassic dinosaurs. In recent years, the field bas enjoyed a tremendous flowering due to new investigative techniques drawn from cladistics (a revolutionary method for charting evolutionary relationships) and molecular biology. Shaking the Tree brings together nineteen review articles written for Nature over the past decade by many of the major figures in paleontology and evolution. Each article is brief, accessible, and opinionated, providing "shoot from the hip" accounts of the latest news and debates. Topics covered include major extinction events, homeotic genes and body plans, the origin and evolution of the primates, and reconstructions of phylogenetic trees for a wide variety of groups. The editor, Henry Gee, gives new commentary and updated references. Shacking the Tree is a one-stop resource for engaging overviews of the latest research in the history of life on Earth.

Sommaire:
["SHAPING THE TREE: HOW TO CREATE A TREE OF LIFE","Punctuated Equilibrium Comes of Age","The Major Evolutionary Transitions","The Powers and Pitfalls of Parsimony","GEOFFROY'S LEGACY: DEVELOPMENT, EVOLUTION AND PALEONTOLOGY","Homeotic Genes and the Evolution of Arthropods and Chordates","A Common Plan for Dorsoventral Patterning in Bilateria","Fossils, Genes and the Evolution of Animal Limbs","The Fossil Record and the Early Evolution of the Metazoa","SEEING THE TREE FOR THE WOODS: THE GLOBAL CONTEXT","Latest Proterozoic Stratigraphy and Earth History","The Early Development of Terrestrial Ecosystems","The Permo-Triassic Extinction","SHAKING THE TREE: CASE HISTORIES IN PHYLOGENY","The Origin and Early Evolution of Plants on Land","The Origin and Early Diversification of Angiosperms","Agnathans and the Origin of Jawed Vertebrates","The Origin and Early Diversification of Tetrapods","The First 85 Million Years of Avian Evolution","Mammalian Phylogeny: Shaking the Tree","CLIMBING DOWN: THE HISTORY OF PRIMATES","Primate Origins: Plugging the Gaps","Evolution and Environment in the Hominoidea","Origin and Evolution of the Genus Homo"]