THE MAJOR EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITIONS

被引：1013
作者：
SZATHMARY, E
SMITH, JM
机构：
[1] EOTVOS LORAND UNIV, DEPT PLANT TAXON & ECOL, ECOL MODELLING RES GRP, H-1083 BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
[2] UNIV SUSSEX, SCH BIOL SCI, BRIGHTON BN1 9QG, E SUSSEX, ENGLAND
来源：
NATURE | 1995年 / 374卷 / 6519期
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D O I：
10.1038/374227a0
中图分类号：
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
There is no theoretical reason to expect evolutionary lineages to increase in complexity with time, and no empirical evidence that they do so. Nevertheless, eukaryotic cells are more complex than prokaryotic ones, animals and plants are more complex than protists, and so on. This increase in complexity may have been achieved as a result of a series of major evolutionary transitions. These involved changes in the way information is stored and transmitted.
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页码：227 / 232
页数：6
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