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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The first 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 ...
The first 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 ...
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The eyes of vertebrates and cephalopods , the wings of insects , birds , and bats are easily recognized as convergent , for they are more similar in name than in structure . ( Wings of birds and bats are similar insofar as they are ...
The eyes of vertebrates and cephalopods , the wings of insects , birds , and bats are easily recognized as convergent , for they are more similar in name than in structure . ( Wings of birds and bats are similar insofar as they are ...
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For example , both 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 ...
For example , both 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 ...
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The Origin and Impact of Evolutionary Thought | 3 |
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
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adaptive advantageous alleles alterations ancestor 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 equal equilibrium evidence evolution evolutionary evolved example exist extinction factors females 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 proportion recombination relative reproduction response sexual similar single speciation species structure suggests theory tion variance vary
Informazioni bibliografiche
| 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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