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Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Michael N. Bruton

    1. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa

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Part of the book series: Perspectives in Vertebrate Science (PIVS, volume 6)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Prologue

      • Michael N. Bruton
      Pages 3-6

    3. The Tao of life: from the dynamic unity of polar opposites to self-organization

      • Eugene K. Balon
      Pages 7-40

  3. Theories, mechanisms and examples

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-42
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    2. Developmental biology and alternative life styles

      • Barry C. Fabian
      Pages 43-53

    3. On divergent and progressive evolution

      • Søren Løvtrup
      Pages 55-69

    4. Direct and indirect development in fishes — examples of alternative life-history styles

      • Christine Flegler-Balon
      Pages 71-100

    5. Alternative life-history styles in anuran amphibians: evolutionary and ecological implications

      • William E. Duellman
      Pages 101-126

    6. Alternative life-history styles in reptiles

      • William R. Branch
      Pages 127-151

    7. Environmentally guided phenotype plasticity in mammals and some of its consequences to theoretical and applied biology

      • Valerius Geist
      Pages 153-176

    8. Sex change as an alternative life-history style

      • Douglas Y. Shapiro
      Pages 177-195

    9. Environmental restraints and life strategies: a habitat templet matrix

      • Erik Holm
      Pages 197-208

    10. Alternative life-history styles of small mammals

      • Michael R. Perrin
      Pages 209-242

  4. Theories contested or tested

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-244
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    2. Ontogeny and evolution: saltatory or otherwise?

      • P. Humphry Greenwood
      Pages 245-259

    3. Alternative sexual tactics in male bladder grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Pneumoridae)

      • Anne J. Alexander, Moira van Staaden
      Pages 261-277

    4. Alternative life-history styles of mutillid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera)

      • Denis J. Brothers
      Pages 279-291

    5. Alternative life-history styles in Simuliidae (Insecta, Diptera)

      • Ferdinand C. de Moor
      Pages 293-316

    6. The evolution of alternative life styles in Coleoptera

      • Sebastian Endrödy-Younga
      Pages 317-327
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  • J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa

    Michael N. Bruton

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