Interpreting the Hierarchy of Nature From Systematic Patterns to
Evolutionary Process TheoriesEdited by - Olivier Rieppel, Field
Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A. This book explores
ways in which systematic patterns are used to infer evolutionary
processes. Among evolutionary biologists and systematists there
is a constant interchange between those that study the process
of evolution (e.g., mutation, selection, speciation) and those
that study its patterns (e.g., variation, geographic
distribution, ontogeny, phylogeny). Because patterns influence
the development of theories, and processes yield patterns, it is
not always easy to distinguish one from another. This book is
dialectic and helps crystallize a continuing debate over the
relationship of patterns to process theories. Hardbound, 298
Pages Published: May 1994 Imprint: Academic Press - Introduction
to Patterns and Process Perspectives. Pattern Description,
Process Explanation and the History of Morphological Sciences.
Theoretical Pluralism in B