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Heterochrony in Evolution

A Multidisciplinary Approach

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Michael L. McKinney

    1. Department of Geological Sciences, and Graduate Program in Ecology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

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Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology (TGBI, volume 7)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Uses of Heterochrony

    1. The Uses of Heterochrony

      • Stephen Jay Gould
      Pages 1-13

  3. Analysis of Heterochrony

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Classifying Heterochrony

      • Michael L. McKinney
      Pages 17-34

    3. Multivariate Analysis

      • Brian N. Tissot
      Pages 35-51

    4. Shape Analysis

      • David W. Foster, Roger L. Kaesler
      Pages 53-69

    5. Phylogenetic Analysis and the Detection of Ontogenetic Patterns

      • William L. Fink
      Pages 71-91

    6. Sclerochronology and the Size versus Age Problem

      • Douglas S. Jones
      Pages 93-108

  4. Heterochrony in Major Groups

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Heterochrony in Plants

      • Edward O. Guerrant Jr.
      Pages 111-133

    3. Heterochrony in Colonial Marine Animals

      • John M. Pandolfi
      Pages 135-158

    4. Heterochrony in Ammonites

      • Neil H. Landman
      Pages 159-182

    5. Heterochrony in Gastropods

      • Dana Geary
      Pages 183-196

    6. Heterochrony in Gastropods

      • David R. Lindberg
      Pages 197-216

    7. Heterochrony in Rodents

      • John C. Hafner, Mark S. Hafner
      Pages 217-235

    8. Heterochrony in Primates

      • Brian T. Shea
      Pages 237-266

  5. Cause, Abundance, and Implications of Heterochrony

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267
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    2. Genetic Basis for Heterochronic Variation

      • Victor Ambros
      Pages 269-285

    3. The Abundance of Heterochrony in the Fossil Record

      • Kenneth J. McNamara
      Pages 287-325

    4. Heterochrony in Evolution

      • Michael L. McKinney
      Pages 327-340
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... an adult poet is simply an individual in a state of arrested development-in brief, a sort of moron. Just as all of us, in utero, pass through a stage in which we are tadpoles, ... so all of us pass through a state, in our nonage, when we are poets. A youth of seventeen who is not a poet is simply a donkey: his development has been arrested even anterior to that of the tadpole. But a man of fifty who still writes poetry is either an unfortunate who has never developed, intellectually, beyond his teens, or a conscious buffoon who pretends to be something he isn't-something far younger and juicier than he actually is. -H. 1. Mencken, High and Ghostly Matters, Prejudices: Fourth Series (1924) Where would evolution be, Without this thing, heterochrony? -M. L. McKinney (1987) One of the joys of working in a renascent field is that it is actually possible to keep up with the literature. So it is with mixed emotions that we heterochronists (even larval forms like myself) view the recent "veritable explosion of interest in heterochrony" (in Gould's words in this volume). On the positive side, it is ob­ viously necessary and desirable to extend and expand the inquiry; but one regrets that already we are beginning to talk past, lose track of, and even ignore each other as we carve out individual interests.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geological Sciences, and Graduate Program in Ecology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

    Michael L. McKinney

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Heterochrony in Evolution

  • Book Subtitle: A Multidisciplinary Approach

  • Editors: Michael L. McKinney

  • Series Title: Topics in Geobiology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0795-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42947-7Published: 30 September 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0797-4Published: 15 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0795-0Published: 21 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0275-0120

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 348

  • Topics: Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Archaeology

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