Evolutionary BiologyFutuyma (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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It is important to ask , though , whether true evolutionary novelties actually arise
by mutation . For example , can both a new enzyme and the regulatory system
that modulates its production arise by mutation ? Clarke ( 1974 ) describes
several ...
It is important to ask , though , whether true evolutionary novelties actually arise
by mutation . For example , can both a new enzyme and the regulatory system
that modulates its production arise by mutation ? Clarke ( 1974 ) describes
several ...
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A new species of gopher arises if chromosome translocations arise by genetic
drift ; a new species of tephritid fly is formed , perhaps , when a few flies become
restricted by a behavioral mutation to a new host plant . In neither instance are
the ...
A new species of gopher arises if chromosome translocations arise by genetic
drift ; a new species of tephritid fly is formed , perhaps , when a few flies become
restricted by a behavioral mutation to a new host plant . In neither instance are
the ...
Pagina 438
Once a structure or biochemical pathway has come into being in crude and
imperfect form , it may subsequently be refined . But whence does the basic form
arise ? EVOLUTIONARY NOVELTIES Natural selection , acting in various guises
at ...
Once a structure or biochemical pathway has come into being in crude and
imperfect form , it may subsequently be refined . But whence does the basic form
arise ? EVOLUTIONARY NOVELTIES Natural selection , acting in various guises
at ...
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Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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| Titolo | Evolutionary Biology |
| Autore | Douglas J. Futuyma |
| Illustrato da | Sarah Landry |
| Edizione | illustrata |
| Editore | Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1979 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 23 feb 2010 |
| ISBN | 0878931996, 9780878931996 |
| Lunghezza | 565 pagine |
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