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Thisbookbeginswiththemodelingofevolutionaryconstraintsonmorphologicaldiversityinecologyandthenextendstodevelopmentandevolution.Theauthorshaveusedtractable,traditionalmodelsandmathematics,andcarefullylinkedtraditionalecologicalequationswithproductionandconsumption.Thisbookcontainsnew,morepowerfulmodelsandhasappliedthem,forexample,inchemicalecologyofcoralreef.Theproductionspaceservesasanappropriatebackgroundspacefromwhichtheenvironmentallyinducedcurvatureintheallometricrelationsofsuperorganismssuchassiphonophores,polymorphicbryozoansandantscanbemeasured.Projectivedifferentialgeometryisusedtoformuladynamicalmodelsofevolutionbyheterochronyandbysymbiosisandatheoryofstableandweaklychaoticproduction,importantinecologyandinmodelingtheevolutionofindividualityisdeveloped.