• DOI:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03861.x
Corpus ID: 29590466

PERSPECTIVE METAZOAN COMPLEXITY AND EVOLUTION: IS THERE A TREND?

@article{McShea1996PERSPECTIVEMC,
  title={PERSPECTIVE METAZOAN COMPLEXITY AND EVOLUTION: IS THERE A TREND?},
  author={D. W. McShea},
  journal={Evolution},
  year={1996},
  volume={50}
}

D. W. McShea

Published 1996

Mathematics, Medicine, Biology

Evolution

The notion that complexity increases in evolution is widely accepted, but the best‐known evidence is highly impressionistic. Here I propose a scheme for understanding complexity that provides a conceptual basis for objective measurement. The scheme also shows complexity to be a broad term covering four independent types. For each type, I describe some of the measures that have been devised and review the evidence for trends in the maximum and mean. In metazoans as a whole, there is good… CONTINUE READING

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