Phenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex Phenotypes

by Massimo Pigliucci

A new voice in the nature-nurture debate can be heard at the interface between evolution and development. Phenotypic integration--or, how large numbers of characteristics are related to make up the whole organism, and how these relationships evolve and change their function--is a major growth area in research, attracting the attention of evolutionary biologists, developmental biologists, and geneticists, as well as, more broadly, ecologists, physiologists,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195160436
• ISBN13: 9780195160437
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"