Morphogenesis, Environmental Stress and Reverse Evolution

✍ Scribed by Jean Guex, John S. Torday, William B. Miller Jr.

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It is widely acknowledged that life has adapted to its environment, but the precise mechanism remains unknown since Natural Selection, Descent with Modification and Survival of the Fittest are metaphors that cannot be scientifically tested. In this unique text, invertebrate and vertebrate biologists illuminate the effects of physiologic stress on epigenetic responses in the process of evolutionary adaptation from unicellular organisms to invertebrates and vertebrates, respectively. This book offers a novel perspective on the mechanisms underlying evolution.

Capacities for morphologic alterations and epigenetic adaptations subject to environmental stresses are demonstrated in both unicellular and multicellular organisms. Furthermore, the underlying cellular-molecular mechanisms that mediate stress for adaptation will be elucidated wherever possible. These include examples of ‘reverse evolution’ by Professor Guex for Ammonites and for mammals by Professor Torday and Dr. Miller. This provides empiric evidence that the conventional way of thinking about evolution as unidirectional is incorrect, leaving open the possibility that it is determined by cell-cell interactions, not sexual selection and reproductive strategy. Rather, the process of evolution can be productively traced through the conservation of an identifiable set of First Principles of Physiology that began with the unicellular form and have been consistently maintained, as reflected by the return to the unicellular state over the course of the life cycle.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-vi
Introduction (Jean Guex)....Pages 1-11
The Controversial Cope’s, Haeckel’s and Dollo’s Evolutionary Rules: The Role of Evolutionary Retrogradation (Jean Guex)....Pages 13-22
Impact of the Environmental Stress on the Late Permian Pollen Grains from Zechstein Deposits of Poland (Anna Fijałkowska-Mader)....Pages 23-35
Stress-Related Evolution in Triassic Conodonts and the Middle Norian Juvenile Mortality (Viktor Karádi, Attila Virág, Tea Kolar-Jurkovšek, Bogdan Jurkovšek)....Pages 37-58
Proteromorphosis in Early Triassic Conodonts (Ali Murat Kiliç, Jean Guex, Francis Hirsch)....Pages 59-96
Developmental Plasticity Induced by Either External or Internal Environment Co-opts Ancient Regulatory Networks (Juan Nicolas Malagon, Sam Scanga, Ernest Ho, Armen Manoukian, Ellen Larsen)....Pages 97-109
Extreme Morphological Plasticity Within Orbulina-“Praeorbulina-Like” Assemblages Related to Environmental Stress (Ahmed Belhadji, Annachiara Bartolini, Linda Rossignol, Lahcène Belkebir, Jean Guex)....Pages 111-127
Steps of Morphogenesis and Iterative Evolution of Imperforate Larger Foraminifera in Shallow Carbonate Shelves During Mesozoic Times: Possible Relations to Symbiotic and Abiotic Factors (Michel Septfontaine)....Pages 129-173
Morphological Deformation of Foraminiferal Tests Caused by Intertidal Oil Spills (Black Tides) (Marie-Thérèse Vénec-Peyré, Annachiara Bartolini, Michele Weber, Jere H. Lipps)....Pages 175-196
Environmental Control on Biotic Development in Siberia (Verkhoyansk Region) and Neighbouring Areas During Permian–Triassic Large Igneous Province Activity (Yuri D. Zakharov, Alexander S. Biakov, Micha Horacek, Ruslan V. Kutygin, Evgeny S. Sobolev, David P. G. Bond)....Pages 197-231
Stress, Development, and Evolution in Coral Reef Communities (Neil W. Blackstone, Austin P. Parrin)....Pages 233-244
Fossil Benthic Foraminifera Morphologic Adaptation (Kleptoplastidy) Within Low-Oxygen-Bottom Water Environments, Coupled with Geochemical Insights from the Late Cretaceous in the Levant Basin (Aaron Meilijson, Sarit Ashckenazi-Polivoda, Peter Illner)....Pages 245-287
Evolution as a Timeless Continuum (John S. Torday, William B. Miller Jr.)....Pages 289-297
Chronic Disease as Reverse Evolution (John S. Torday, William B. Miller Jr.)....Pages 299-309
Back Matter ....Pages 311-322

✦ Subjects

Life Sciences; Evolutionary Biology; Biodiversity; Paleontology; Microbiology; Invertebrates