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Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals

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    Chapter 1 Prologue
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    Chapter 2 The Tao of life: from the dynamic unity of polar opposites to self-organization
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    Chapter 3 Developmental biology and alternative life styles
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    Chapter 4 On divergent and progressive evolution
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    Chapter 5 Direct and indirect development in fishes — examples of alternative life-history styles
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    Chapter 6 Alternative life-history styles in anuran amphibians: evolutionary and ecological implications
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    Chapter 7 Alternative life-history styles in reptiles
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    Chapter 8 Environmentally guided phenotype plasticity in mammals and some of its consequences to theoretical and applied biology
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    Chapter 9 Sex change as an alternative life-history style
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    Chapter 10 Environmental restraints and life strategies: a habitat templet matrix
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    Chapter 11 Alternative life-history styles of small mammals
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    Chapter 12 Ontogeny and evolution: saltatory or otherwise?
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    Chapter 13 Alternative sexual tactics in male bladder grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Pneumoridae)
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    Chapter 14 Alternative life-history styles of mutillid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera)
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    Chapter 15 Alternative life-history styles in Simuliidae (Insecta, Diptera)
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    Chapter 16 The evolution of alternative life styles in Coleoptera
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    Chapter 17 Alternative life-history styles in salmonine fishes with emphasis on arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus
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    Chapter 18 Metamorphosis in the frog Arthroleptella lightfooti (Anura, Ranidae) with emphasis on neuro-endocrine mechanisms
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    Chapter 19 Allometry and the breeding biology of some plovers
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    Chapter 20 Alternative life-history styles of South African birds
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    Chapter 21 Life-history styles of southern African Mastomys natalensis, Otomys irroratus and Rhabdomys pumilio (Mammalia, Rodentia)
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    Chapter 22 The megaherbivore syndrome: alternative life style or different time frame?
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    Chapter 23 The constraint of maternal nutrition on the trajectory of fetal growth in humans
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    Chapter 24 The epigenetic mechanisms of bifurcation and alternative life-history styles
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    Chapter 25 The ecological significance of alternative life-history styles
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    Chapter 26 What is the difference between neo-Darwinism and epigenetics?
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    Chapter 27 The Okavango debate on bifurcation
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Title
Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals
Published by
Springer Netherlands, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-2605-9
ISBNs
978-9-40-107675-3, 978-9-40-092605-9
Editors

Bruton, Michael N.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 14%
Unknown 6 86%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 57%
Lecturer 1 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 14%
Student > Bachelor 1 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 71%
Environmental Science 2 29%