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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... cause of extinction , the survival or extinction of a species may depend not on intricate adaptations , efficiency ... caused by the continual evolution of other species ( predators and competitors ) with which each species interacts ...
... cause of extinction , the survival or extinction of a species may depend not on intricate adaptations , efficiency ... caused by the continual evolution of other species ( predators and competitors ) with which each species interacts ...
Pagina 138
Douglas J. Futuyma. But this hypothesis places the cause of evolution in an Aristotelian final cause , rather than an efficient cause such as natural selection , which is not sentient and has no vision of the future . Hence evolu ...
Douglas J. Futuyma. But this hypothesis places the cause of evolution in an Aristotelian final cause , rather than an efficient cause such as natural selection , which is not sentient and has no vision of the future . Hence evolu ...
Pagina 247
... caused and dissociated by recombination from its occasional advantageous production . Thus there is a conflict ; a ... cause gross alterations of the phenotype and are perhaps the very kinds of mutation we most expect to be harmful ...
... caused and dissociated by recombination from its occasional advantageous production . Thus there is a conflict ; a ... cause gross alterations of the phenotype and are perhaps the very kinds of mutation we most expect to be harmful ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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