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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Pagina 140
... become smaller in size . Adaptive radiation , rather than consistent unidirectional change , is the norm for every group . Even such a small group as the Falconiformes , for example , includes not only falcons adapted for rapidly ...
... become smaller in size . Adaptive radiation , rather than consistent unidirectional change , is the norm for every group . Even such a small group as the Falconiformes , for example , includes not only falcons adapted for rapidly ...
Pagina 386
... become locally extinct by their failure to do so ( Kettlewell 1973 ) . Many plants have not become adapted to toxic soils , either to mine tailings or to their natural analogues such as serpentine - based soils , on which few species of ...
... become locally extinct by their failure to do so ( Kettlewell 1973 ) . Many plants have not become adapted to toxic soils , either to mine tailings or to their natural analogues such as serpentine - based soils , on which few species of ...
Pagina 466
... become a new species . By subsequent speciation , it may give rise to a complex of species associated with this ... become a large , ecologically " successful " group . -- However , local populations of herbivorous insects occasionally ...
... become a new species . By subsequent speciation , it may give rise to a complex of species associated with this ... become a large , ecologically " successful " group . -- However , local populations of herbivorous insects occasionally ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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AA AA adaptive advantageous alleles alterations ancestor animals appear arise associated average become behavior biological birds body bristle cause cent Chapter character characteristics chromosome common complex consists depends derived determined developmental differentiation direction Discuss distribution diversity dominant drift Drosophila ecological effect environment environmental enzyme equilibrium evidence evolution evolutionary evolved example exist extinction factors Figure fitness fossil function gene flow gene frequency genetic genetic variation genotypes geographic greater growth heterozygotes higher highly human hybrid important increase individuals insects instances interactions isolated kinds less loci locus major males mating mean mechanisms mutation natural selection occur offspring organisms origin patterns phenotypic plants Pleistocene polymorphic population possible predators present probability produce recombination relative reproduction response sexual similar single speciation species structure theory tion variance vary