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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... birds and several groups of mammals appeared at this time . The marine scene featured a reradiation of Chondrichthyes , including modern sharks , and a great diversity of holostean bony fishes , the group that survives at present only ...
... birds and several groups of mammals appeared at this time . The marine scene featured a reradiation of Chondrichthyes , including modern sharks , and a great diversity of holostean bony fishes , the group that survives at present only ...
Pagina 142
... birds and bats are similar insofar as they are modified forelimbs , but completely different insofar as they are ... bird Hesperornis , alone among the vertebrates , evolved an 142 CHAPTER SEVEN.
... birds and bats are similar insofar as they are modified forelimbs , but completely different insofar as they are ... bird Hesperornis , alone among the vertebrates , evolved an 142 CHAPTER SEVEN.
Pagina 148
... birds and crocodilians are derived from the archosaurian reptiles that included the dinosaurs ; the common ancestor of turtles , lizards , and archosaurs was a more remote ancestral reptile . Placing birds in one class and crocodilians ...
... birds and crocodilians are derived from the archosaurian reptiles that included the dinosaurs ; the common ancestor of turtles , lizards , and archosaurs was a more remote ancestral reptile . Placing birds in one class and crocodilians ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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