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Life Cycles

An evolutionary approach to the physiology of reproduction, development and ageing

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Authors:
  1. Peter Calow

    1. Department of Zoology, University of Glasgow, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Life’s logic

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      Pages 2-18
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  4. Reproduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. How organisms reproduce

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      Pages 66-86
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    3. Quantitative aspects of reproduction

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      Pages 87-106
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  5. Ageing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. The ageing process

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      Pages 108-123
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    3. The cycle reversed

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      Pages 124-134
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  6. Summary and conclusions

    1. Summary and conclusions

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      Pages 135-136
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  7. Back Matter

    Pages 137-164
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About this book

As time progresses, biology becomes more and more fragmented and specialized and it becomes increasingly difficult to see how all the dis- ! parate facts fit together. It is completely proper that biologists should have sought to reduce complex biological wholes into their parts, and it is natural that studies on the products of this reduction should have diverged from more holistic studies on evolution and ecology. Yet the biological parts, what they do and how they are organized are products of an evolutionary process which fits organisms for life in particular ecological circumstances. Physiology, developmental biology, ecology and evolutionary biology must not be allowed to grow too far apart, therefore, because all these disciplines and the way their subject matters interact are crucial to understanding organisms - and it is this, it seems to me, which is the fundamental goal of the biological sciences. This book has been written in the spirit of unification and synthesis. It is, in a sense, a general biology of the organism - not, however, of organisms as static unchanging systems, but of organisms as dynamic entities which progress through a definite cycle of events from birth to maturity. The central theme, therefore, will be the life cycle, and the book is organized around the three main phases which are characteristic of all life cycles; growth (Part II), reproduction (Part III) and ageing (Part IV).

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Zoology, University of Glasgow, UK

    Peter Calow

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Life Cycles

  • Book Subtitle: An evolutionary approach to the physiology of reproduction, development and ageing

  • Authors: Peter Calow

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3430-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: P. Calow 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-412-21520-9Published: 14 December 1978

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-3430-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 164

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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