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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