Second Edition in pdf of the book by Professor Milton Gallardo, "evolution. The course of life"
Has recently been published in pdf format and free, the second edition of the book by Professor Milton Gallardo "evolution. The course of life":
The text, designed for Biology Graduate and advanced undergraduate students, has a conceptually critical structure, with epistemological and analytic depth. It is divided into two parts. The first includes the development of evolutionary thought until today. It analyzes biodiversity, continental drift, biotic exchanges and its consequences, the origins of the order, phylogenetic inference and the questions that are derived from the question what is a species? Discusses the role of population genetics and chromosomes in the vertical inheritance. It ends the first part with the molecular developmental biology, molecular evolution and genomics tide. The second part is inquisitively epistemological. Begins with macroevolution, despised does not conform to the status quo reigning. Integrative and usually marginalized scientific views come together. An exhaustive analysis of the neo-Darwinism as axiomatic and semantic system shows its limits, socio-political vices and insurmountable objections. The analysis is complemented by the thought of outstanding figures whose intellectual wisdom illustrate the controversial relationship between science and society. It is appropriate to develop an evolutionary theory that luxueuse nature with the human spirit, lost in obsolete mechanistic insight. This new epistemology should study the biological reality; not his appearance as a human construct. Thus, the Lifetime uses and restructures the current biological knowledge, by giving importance to the genetic phenomena of greater significance and recurrence (e.g., accretion, singamia, hybridization of lineages, polyploidization and lateral gene transfer) which defined and designed the context faced living beings. Evolutionary dynamics is not a field of battle; It is collaboration, opportunity, fusion of lineages, newness and permanence. For the author, the evolution is inherently a process of genetic exchange resulting in phylogenetic Crosslinking. Your understanding will not be achieved by analyzing the resulting biological architecture, but to understand and integrate the processes that shape.
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