Government by Natural Selection

Hugh Taylor

Preface 1. Major Features of the Fossil Record and Their Implications for Evolutionary Rate Studies 2. The Timing of Major Evolutionary Innovations from the Origin of Life to the Origins of the Metaphya and Metazoa: The Geological Evidence 3. Rates and Modes of Evolution in the Mollusca 4. Rates of Evolution Among Palaeozoic Echinoderms 5. The Initial Radiation and Rise to Dominance of the Angiosperms 6. Selection or Constraint?: A Proposal on the Mechanism for Stasis 7. Development Pathways and Evolutionary Rates 8. Population Biology and Evolutionary Change 9. Comparative Rates of Molecular, Chromosomal and Morphological Evolution in Some Australian Vertebrates 10. Evolution of Gene Structure in Relation to Function 11. Popular Genetics, Evolutionary Rates and Neo-Darwinism 12. Genetic Systems and Evolutionary Rates 13. The Origin, Nature and Significance of Genetic Variation in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes 14. Old and New Theories of Evolution 15. From Genome to Phenotype 16. The New Gene and its Evolution Index