Variability and Phylogeny

Gaberiel S. Bever is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy at the New York Institute of Technology, Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Evolutionary Studies Institue of the University of Witwatersrand.

Changing Perspectives on Variation. Proximate-Ultimate Causation: Historical Trends and Current Expression. Beyond Transmission Genetics - Variation and Development Reconsidered. Extended Zones of Variability and the Origin of Phenotypes. Testing the Model. Polymorphism and Phylogenetic Structure. Four-Dimensional Variability – the Dynamic Nature of Variational Properties. Concentrated Homoplasy and the Origin of Functional Complexes in the Phenotype. Current Concerns and Future Directions. Phylogenetic Instability and the Early History of Clades. Regulatory Networks and the Evolution of Variability. Prospects for Increasing Integration in Variation Studies.