Elements of Organic Evolution

Interest in organic evolution has increased in recent decades among a wide range of scientists-from astronomers to biochemists. This book provides a scientific account of all core issues pertaining to organic evolution. The information is grouped under twenty four chapters, which will be useful to researchers, scientists and teachers in the field. CONTENTS The Origin of Life; Evidence of Evolution; Lamarckism & Neo-Lamarckism; Darwin’s Natural Selection; Sexual Selection; Recapitulation Theory and Extinction; Artificial Selection; Ontogenesis and Kinetogenesis; The Mutation Theory; Colouration and Mimicry; Isolation; Origin of Species; Adaptive Radiation; Cursorial and Fossorial Adaptation; Aquatic Adaptation; Desert Adaptation; Cave and Deep-Sea Adaptations; Volant Adaptation; Scansorial Adaptation; Geographic Distribution; Bathymetric Distribution; The Synthetic Theory of Evolution; Zoogeographical Distribution; Adaptation and Selection; etc.