New Perspectives on Evolution

Partial table of contents:

EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES IN SOVIET RUSSIA.

Mechanistic and Dialectical Materialism in 20th CenturyEvolutionary Theory: The Work of Ivan I. Schmalhausen (G.Allen).

Current State of Evolutionary Theory in the USSR (N.Vorontsov).

INTERPLAY OF ORGANISMS AND ENVIRONMENT.

Environmental Context of Evolutionary Change: An Example from theEnd of the Proterozoic Eon (A. Knoll).

Parallelism and Convergence in the Horse Limb: TheInternal-External Dichotomy (K. Thomson).

IMPACT OF RECENT ADVANCES IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, I. New Perspectiveson the Molecular Evolution of Genes and Genomes (D. Hartl).

Gene Structure and Evolutionary Theory (W. Gilbert).

IMPACT OF RECENT ADVANCES IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, II.

The Phylogenetic Significance of Sequence Diversity and LengthVariations in Eukaryotic Small Subunit Ribosomal RNA Coding Regions(M. Sogin).

Our Recent African Past: New Mitrochondrial Perspectives on HumanEvolution (R. Cann).

Index.