商品簡介
Plasticity studies are at the heart of one of the fundamental questions scientists ask: How do nature and nurture interact to yield the plants, animals, and people all around us? Although research on the topic has intensified in the past 20 years, there's still no overarching theory of phenotypic plasticity, which integrates aspects of ecological genetics, developmental biology, and evolutionary theory. Pigliucci (botany; ecology and evolutionary biology, U. of Tennessee) provides a conceptual overview of how researchers in plasticity studies and closely related fields see the whole picture so far. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Massimo Pigliucci is an associate professor in the Departments of Botany and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
