Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press, Incorporated, 1979 - 565 pagine Futuyma (ecology and evolution, SUNY Stony Brook) covers such subject areas as phylogeny, paleobiology, genetic mechanisms of change and speciation, character evolution, the theory of processes and macroevolution, and new molecular perspectives. Numerous line drawings, charts, diagrams, and maps are provided. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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... advantageous mutations are likely to have slight phenotype effects and that evolution proceeds by successive slight changes in phenotype and is a gradual process . This proposition , however , is presently coming into question . 11 ...
... advantageous mutations are likely to have slight phenotype effects and that evolution proceeds by successive slight changes in phenotype and is a gradual process . This proposition , however , is presently coming into question . 11 ...
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... advantageous only if it contributes to the function of an established system , and what is advantageous to one species is disadvantageous to others with different structures and ways of life . Moreover the adaptive value of an allele ...
... advantageous only if it contributes to the function of an established system , and what is advantageous to one species is disadvantageous to others with different structures and ways of life . Moreover the adaptive value of an allele ...
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... advantageous to maple trees ; what is advantageous is the presence of anthocyanins for other reasons and the breakdown of chlorophyll so that some of the breakdown products can be stored . Every gene has a variety of effects on the ...
... advantageous to maple trees ; what is advantageous is the presence of anthocyanins for other reasons and the breakdown of chlorophyll so that some of the breakdown products can be stored . Every gene has a variety of effects on the ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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