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 evolutionists ...
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 evolutionists ...
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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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