Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Fourth Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Note on names of plants
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Investigating plant variation and evolution
- 2 From Ray to Darwin
- 3 Early work on biometry
- 4 Early work on the basis of individual variation
- 5 Post-Darwinian ideas about evolution
- 6 DNA: towards an understanding of heredity and molecular evolution
- 7 Breeding systems
- 8 Intraspecific variation and the ecotype concept
- 9 Pattern and process in plant populations
- 10 Pattern and process: factors interacting with natural selection
- 11 Populations: origins and extinctions
- 12 Species and speciation: concepts and models
- 13 Allopatric speciation and hybridisation
- 14 Abrupt speciation
- 15 The species concept
- 16 Flowering plant evolution: advances, challenges and prospects
- 17 Historical biogeography
- 18 The evolutionary impact of human activities
- 19 The taxonomic challenge ahead
- 20 Conservation: from protection to restoration and beyond
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Glossary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Fourth Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Note on names of plants
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Investigating plant variation and evolution
- 2 From Ray to Darwin
- 3 Early work on biometry
- 4 Early work on the basis of individual variation
- 5 Post-Darwinian ideas about evolution
- 6 DNA: towards an understanding of heredity and molecular evolution
- 7 Breeding systems
- 8 Intraspecific variation and the ecotype concept
- 9 Pattern and process in plant populations
- 10 Pattern and process: factors interacting with natural selection
- 11 Populations: origins and extinctions
- 12 Species and speciation: concepts and models
- 13 Allopatric speciation and hybridisation
- 14 Abrupt speciation
- 15 The species concept
- 16 Flowering plant evolution: advances, challenges and prospects
- 17 Historical biogeography
- 18 The evolutionary impact of human activities
- 19 The taxonomic challenge ahead
- 20 Conservation: from protection to restoration and beyond
- Glossary
- References
- Index
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- Plant Variation and Evolution , pp. 478 - 481Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016