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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... ancestor . Species B is genealogically closer to C , but genetically more similar to A , if their primitive features are determined by the same genes . The evolutionary systematists would classify B with A rather than with C , just as ...
... ancestor . Species B is genealogically closer to C , but genetically more similar to A , if their primitive features are determined by the same genes . The evolutionary systematists would classify B with A rather than with C , just as ...
Pagina 172
... ancestor at any stage of development ; it will have more of the ancestor's adult form in the juvenile stages of the descendant . Thus , if the descendant attains the same adult body size as the ancestor , it will have passed through the ...
... ancestor at any stage of development ; it will have more of the ancestor's adult form in the juvenile stages of the descendant . Thus , if the descendant attains the same adult body size as the ancestor , it will have passed through the ...
Pagina 173
... ancestor , as the regression lines indicate . In the descendant , therefore , suture growth is accelerated with ... ancestor at the same ( or greater ) body size that the ancestor attained . The classic example of such pacdomor- phosis ...
... ancestor , as the regression lines indicate . In the descendant , therefore , suture growth is accelerated with ... ancestor at the same ( or greater ) body size that the ancestor attained . The classic example of such pacdomor- phosis ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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