Adaptation and the adaptive system -- Spatial structure of the adaptive niche -- Dynamics of the adaptive niche -- The selection interface -- Adaptive equilibrium -- The cladogenetic selection interface -- Adaptive potential, biophysical paradigms, and the selectional attractor -- Evolutionary mode -- Structural paradigms of development -- Adaptive capacity and potential in the mechanisms of development -- Developmental genetics, adaptive capacity, and potential -- Mutation and realization of adaptive potential -- Chromosome structure and adaptive topography -- Evolutionary impediments and the adaptive substrate for evolutionary change -- Darwinian versus Thompsonian factors in evolution -- The morphogenetic topology of evolutionary change -- Architecture of the phyletic lineage -- Evolutionary rate and episodic evolution -- Stasis and the adaptive substrate -- Extinction : lineage to clade -- From lineage to taxon.