Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior (eBook)

Rui Diogo is an Associate Professor at Howard University College of Medicine and a member of the Resource Faculty at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology at George Washington University. One of the youngest researchers to be nominated as Fellow of the American Association of Anatomists, he won several prestigious awards, being the only researcher to be selected for the first/second place for best article of the year in the top anatomical journal two times in just three years (2013/2015). Author or co-author of more than 100 papers in top journals, such as Nature, and of numerous book chapters, he is the co-editor of three books and the sole or first author of eleven books covering subjects as diverse as fish evolution, chordate development, and human medicine and pathology, including a book adopted at medical schools worldwide, "Learning and understanding human anatomy and pathology: an evolutionary and developmental guide for medical students."

PrefaceDedicationAcknowledgements1. Introduction to Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution (ONCE) and Notes on Terminology2. Baldwin's Organic Selection and the Rising Awareness of the Evolutionary Importance of Behavioral Shifts3. Behavioral Choices and Shifts, Niche Construction, Natural Selection, Extinctions, and Asymmetry4. Evolutionary Trends, Sexual Selection, Novelties, Gene Loss, Mass Extinctions and 'Progress'5. Behavioral Leads in Evolution--Form, Function, Exaptations, Human Evolution and Lamarck6. Eco-morphological Mismatches, Human 'Exceptionalism', Hybridization, Trade-offs and Nonoptimality7. Internal Selection, Constraints, Contingency, Homology, Reversions, Atavisms, von Baer, Haeckel, and Alberch8. ONCE Links Internal Factors, Epigenetics, Matsuda, Waddington, Goldschmidt, and Macroevolution9. ONCE Things Are Put Together: Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology, Adaptationism, Systems Biology, and Interdisciplinary10. General Remarks and Bullet Points11. References12. Index