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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... average sizes are to be compared . Haldane ( 1949 ) proposed the DARWIN as a measure of evolutionary rates , defining it as a change by a factor of e ( the base of natural logarithms , 2.718 ) per million years . For example , the average ...
... average sizes are to be compared . Haldane ( 1949 ) proposed the DARWIN as a measure of evolutionary rates , defining it as a change by a factor of e ( the base of natural logarithms , 2.718 ) per million years . For example , the average ...
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... average Drosophila population is polymorphic at no less than 30 per cent of its loci and that the polymorphic loci have so many alleles ( 2-6 ) at such high frequencies that an average fly is likely to be heterozygous at about 12 per ...
... average Drosophila population is polymorphic at no less than 30 per cent of its loci and that the polymorphic loci have so many alleles ( 2-6 ) at such high frequencies that an average fly is likely to be heterozygous at about 12 per ...
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... average than those with another , selection occurs . But if selection is a matter of averages , there must be at least several replicate copies of each gene , several individuals with each genotype , for an average superiority to be ...
... average than those with another , selection occurs . But if selection is a matter of averages , there must be at least several replicate copies of each gene , several individuals with each genotype , for an average superiority to be ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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