Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Prologue....Pages 3-6
The Tao of life: from the dynamic unity of polar opposites to self-organization....Pages 7-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-42
Developmental biology and alternative life styles....Pages 43-53
On divergent and progressive evolution....Pages 55-69
Direct and indirect development in fishes — examples of alternative life-history styles....Pages 71-100
Alternative life-history styles in anuran amphibians: evolutionary and ecological implications....Pages 101-126
Alternative life-history styles in reptiles....Pages 127-151
Environmentally guided phenotype plasticity in mammals and some of its consequences to theoretical and applied biology....Pages 153-176
Sex change as an alternative life-history style....Pages 177-195
Environmental restraints and life strategies: a habitat templet matrix....Pages 197-208
Alternative life-history styles of small mammals....Pages 209-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-244
Ontogeny and evolution: saltatory or otherwise?....Pages 245-259
Alternative sexual tactics in male bladder grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Pneumoridae)....Pages 261-277
Alternative life-history styles of mutillid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera)....Pages 279-291
Alternative life-history styles in Simuliidae (Insecta, Diptera)....Pages 293-316
The evolution of alternative life styles in Coleoptera....Pages 317-327
Alternative life-history styles in salmonine fishes with emphasis on arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus ....Pages 329-346
Metamorphosis in the frog Arthroleptella lightfooti (Anura, Ranidae) with emphasis on neuro-endocrine mechanisms....Pages 347-370
Allometry and the breeding biology of some plovers....Pages 371-384
Alternative life-history styles of South African birds....Pages 385-420
Front Matter....Pages 243-244
Life-history styles of southern African Mastomys natalensis, Otomys irroratus and Rhabdomys pumilio (Mammalia, Rodentia)....Pages 421-439
The megaherbivore syndrome: alternative life style or different time frame?....Pages 441-457
The constraint of maternal nutrition on the trajectory of fetal growth in humans....Pages 459-464
Front Matter....Pages 465-466
The epigenetic mechanisms of bifurcation and alternative life-history styles....Pages 467-501
The ecological significance of alternative life-history styles....Pages 503-553
Front Matter....Pages 555-558
What is the difference between neo-Darwinism and epigenetics?....Pages 559-570
The Okavango debate on bifurcation....Pages 571-589
Back Matter....Pages 591-617