Epigenetic Principles of Evolution Book

Introduction

Part 1: Epigenetic Basis of Metazoan Heredity

1. Control Systems and Determination of Phenotypic Traits in Metazoans
2. Neural Manipulation of Gene Expression
3. Epigenetic Control of Reproduction
4. Epigenetic Control of Early Development
5. Neural Control of Postphylotypic Development
6. The Epigenetic System of Heredity - An Outline

7. Part 2: Neural-Developmental Premises of Evolutionary Adaptation

8. Evolution and Stress Responses to Changes in Environment
9. Behavioral Adaptation to Changed Conditions of Living
10. Ontology: The Workshop of Evolutionary Change
11. Intragenerational Developmental Plasticity

12. Part 3: Epigenetics of Circumevolutionary Phenomena and the Mechansim of the Evolutionary Change

13. Transgenerational Developmental Plasticity - An Epitome of Evolutionary Change
14. Evolution of Metazoans and Their Control System

15. Part 4: Epigenetics of Metazoan Evolution

16. Origins of Evolutionary Novelty
17. Evolution by Loss
18. Evolution by Reverting to Ancestral Characters
19. Neural Crest-Determined Evolutionary Novelties
20. Evolutionary Convergences: The Trend Toward Sameness in Metazoan Evolution
21. Species and Allopatric Speciaition
22. Epigentics of Sympatric Speciation - Speciation as a Mechanism of Evolution