Epigenetic processes, when natura non facit saltum becomes a myth, and alternative ontogenies a mechanism of evolution

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-35

  Balon, Eugene K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Altricial; Darwinism; Development; Discontinuity; Epigenesis; Life history model; New processes of evolution; Non equilibrium thermodynamics; Precocial; Saltation; Self organization; Stability; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; ONTOGENY;

ALIA;

EID: 0036713789     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019619206215     Document Type: Review

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