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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... conditions ( Figure 3 , Chapter 2 ) . In some cases a wide reaction norm , the production of greatly different phenotypes under different environmental conditions , is disadvantageous or pathological . Our tendency to develop scurvy ...
... conditions ( Figure 3 , Chapter 2 ) . In some cases a wide reaction norm , the production of greatly different phenotypes under different environmental conditions , is disadvantageous or pathological . Our tendency to develop scurvy ...
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... conditions . The single most useful criterion of which character state is primitive within a group of species is its condition in related forms outside the group . If species A , B , and C are known to share a more recent common ...
... conditions . The single most useful criterion of which character state is primitive within a group of species is its condition in related forms outside the group . If species A , B , and C are known to share a more recent common ...
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... conditions , but none had uniformly high survival over all the conditions . Heterozygotes for these same chro- mosomes , however , had a high survival rate that was much more uniform from one environment to another . This experiment ...
... conditions , but none had uniformly high survival over all the conditions . Heterozygotes for these same chro- mosomes , however , had a high survival rate that was much more uniform from one environment to another . This experiment ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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