A new paradigm for the conquest of land by vertebrates that includes exaptations:

A new view for studying and understanding biological evolution emerges when the concepts of phylogenetic systematics and exaptation are combined. A new definition of macroevolution is created. Preadaptation is shown to be a null concept and its comparison with exaptation is shown to be inappropriate...

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Main Authors: Triques, Mauro Luís (Author), Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill 2024
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Online Access:DE-188
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Summary:A new view for studying and understanding biological evolution emerges when the concepts of phylogenetic systematics and exaptation are combined. A new definition of macroevolution is created. Preadaptation is shown to be a null concept and its comparison with exaptation is shown to be inappropriate. This book criticizes the prevailing view, the adaptationist, microevolutionary outlook, which considers adaptation as being the exclusive or main evolutionary process responsible for vertebrates having occupied the terrestrial environment. The authors argue that the macroevolutionary processes are significantly more important to explain an improbable evolutionary event. Their research shows that macroevolutionary processes are the dominant factors involved in the origin of terrestriality. This book is a revised and expanded English translation from the original Portuguese edition Peixes conquistam a terra firme: nova abordagem para um evento acidental único (Editora Baraúna, 2017)
Item Description:Auf der Rückseite des Titelblattes: "This book is a revised and expanded English translation from the original Portuguese edition 'Peixes conquistam a terra firme: nova abordagem para um evento acidental único', published by Editora Baraúna in 2017."
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 222 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9789004684911
DOI:10.1163/9789004684911

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