Phenotypic plasticity
Subtitle: beyond nature and nurture
By: Massimo Pigliucci.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Phenotype; Genotype-environment interaction; Nature and nurture; Adaptation (Physiology)
Description: "Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture is the first work to synthesize the burgeoning area of plasticity studies, providing a conceptual overview as well as a technical treatment of its major components.".

"The author begins by defining phenotypic plasticity and detailing its history, including important experiments and methods of statistical and graphical analysis. He then provides extended examples and discussion of the molecular basis of plasticity, the plasticity of development, the ecology of plastic responses, and the role of costs and constraints in the evolution of plasticity. A brief epilogue looks at how plasticity studies shed light on the nature/nurture debate in the popular media.".

"Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture thoroughly reviews more than two decades of research, and thus will be of interest to both students and professionals in evolutionary biology, ecology, and genetics."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-303).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 What Is Phenotypic Plasticity? 1; title: 2 Studying and Understanding Plasticity 29; title: 3 A Brief (Conceptual) History of Phenotypic Plasticity 47; title: 4 The Genetics of Phenotypic Plasticity 67; title: 5 The Molecular Biology of Phenotypic Plasticity 109; title: 6 The Developmental Biology of Phenotypic Plasticity 133; title: 7 The Ecology of Phenotypic Plasticity 156; title: 8 Behavior and Phenotypic Plasticity 182; title: 9 Evolution of and by Phenotypic Plasticity 197; title: 10 The Theoretical Biology of Phenotypic Plasticity 216; title: 11 Phenotypic Plasticity as a Central Concept; title: in Evolutionary Biology 237; title: Epilogue: Beyond Nature and Nurture 253.