Genetics and the Logic of Evolution / by Kenneth M. Weiss and Anne V. Buchanan. -- Wiley-Liss, 2004. -- 58.14/W429

Contents

Contents:

1. Prospects: The Basic Postulates of Life  3

2. Conceptual and Analytic Approaches to Evolution  21

3. Evolution By Phenotype: How Change Happens in life  43

4. The Storage and Flow of Biological Information  69

5. Genotypes and Phenotypes  105

6. A Cell is Born  119

7. A Repertoire of Basic Genetic Mechanisms  145

8. Making More of Life: The Many Aspects of Reproduction  179

9. Scaling Up: How Cells Build and Organism  213

10. Communicating Between Cells  253

11. detecting and Destroying Intrernal Incaders  279

12. Detecting Physical Variability in the Environment  315

13. chemical Signaling and Sensation from the Outside World  343

14. Detecting Light  367

15. The Development and Structure of Nervous Systems  395

16. Perceiving: Integrating Signals from the Environment  421

17. A Great Chain of Beings  457