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In the Light of Evolution, Volume I: Adaptation and Complex Design
Auchenorrhyncha, 173 -176
Avida populations
frequency and distribution of function, 35 -37
functional information of, 26 , 28 , 30 , 33 -40 , 41 , 42 , 43
islands of function, 36 -40
measures of function, 34 -35
software, 43
stepped behavior, 37 -38 , 39 -40 , 41
Avise, John C., iv , xiii -xiv , 43 , 163 , 181
Ayala, Francisco J., xiii -xiv , xvii , 3 -21 , 43 , 68 , 163 , 181 , 183 , 296
B
Bacteria.
See also Escherichia coli
age of, 19
coadaptation, 171
evolution of multicellularity, 132
flagellum, 171 , 285 , 289 -290 , 291 , 292 , 293
genome analysis, 50 , 170
horizontal gene transfer, 167 , 168 , 170 -171 , 172 , 179
loss of function, 69 , 167
pathogenic, 168 , 170
phototrophic, 171
resistance to antibiotics, 15 -16
symbiotic associations, 167 , 170 -171 , 172 , 174 -179
toxins, 167
type-III secretory systems, 167
Bacteriocytes, 174
Bacteriomes, 174 , 175 , 176 , 177 , 179
Bacteriophages, 170 , 179
Baldwin effect, 57 , 58
Bananas, 206 , 211 , 212
Barley, 206 , 209 , 212 , 213 , 214
Bat wing evolution, 55 -56 , 73 -74 , 75
Baumania cicadellinicola , 175 , 176 , 177
Beall, Cynthia M., 184 , 239 -255
Beavis effect, 211
Bees, 50 , 146 , 148 , 149 , 152 , 153 , 154 , 157 , 159 -160 , 161 , 162 , 172
Beetle horn diversification
allometry, 257 , 258 , 262 , 271 , 272 , 275 , 277 -279 , 281
axis of outgrowth, 265 -270 , 275 -276 , 280
comparative studies, 277
developmental model, 258 , 275 -280
developmental stages, 267
dimorphism and, 257 , 261 , 262 -265 , 266 , 275 , 279 , 280 , 281
fossil record, 261
gains and losses, 257 , 258 , 261 -262 , 264 , 280 -281
insulin sensitivity, 272 , 277 -279 , 280
morphology, 257 , 260 , 261 , 262 -265 , 266 , 273 , 275 -277 , 279 , 280 , 281
mutations, 261 , 280
natural history of scarabs, 184 , 257 , 259 -265
nutrition-related modulation, 257 , 270 -273 , 275 , 277 -279
origin, 185 , 257 , 275 -276
patterning genes, 276 -277 , 279 , 280
physical location of horns 262 , 263 , 273 -277 , 281
pupal remodeling, 265 , 267 , 273 -275 , 279
shape, 257 , 262 , 264 , 276 -277 , 279 , 281
stepwise evolution, 265 -275
Behe, Michael, 288 -289 , 290 , 291 , 293 , 295 -296 , 299
Bell, Charles, 10 , 12
Bennett, Albert F., 183 , 225 -238
Bernard, Gary D., 187 -204
Bess beetles (Passalidae), 259 , 260
β-tubulins, 50
Bicyclus anynana , 191
Biocomplexity.
See also Avida populations;
Eusocial insect colonies;
Multicellular organisms
artificial, 26
behavioral, 28
competitive, 32
conserved core processes, 54 -55
of cross-purpose, 147
developmental constraints, 65
dimensionality, 28
diversity, 27 -28
hierarchical levels, 105 -107
information content–function relationship, 27
measuring, 150 -151
modeling emergent events, 26 , 42 -43
natural selection and, 16 -17 , 54 , 55 , 68 , 69 , 73 , 85 , 93 , 95 -96
nonadaptive forces, 90 -95
origins and evolution of, xvii , 42 , 83 , 84 , 93 -95 , 103
of purpose, 147
