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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... derived " forms . ( This requires that we know how to tell primitive from derived forms , a problem treated in Chapter 7. ) Thus , for example , the murid rodents of Australia are mostly endemic genera that are structurally more ...
... derived " forms . ( This requires that we know how to tell primitive from derived forms , a problem treated in Chapter 7. ) Thus , for example , the murid rodents of Australia are mostly endemic genera that are structurally more ...
Pagina 152
... derived states than others is thus common ancestry , and the best guess of the true phylogeny is this : species that share the highest number of derived character states constitute monophyletic groups ( Figure 14 ) . It can be shown ...
... derived states than others is thus common ancestry , and the best guess of the true phylogeny is this : species that share the highest number of derived character states constitute monophyletic groups ( Figure 14 ) . It can be shown ...
Pagina 153
... derived . A peculiarly specialized adaptation is more often derived than ancestral ; the raptorial forelegs of mantids and the webbed feet of the platypus are specializations for ways of life that the ancestors of insects and mammals ...
... derived . A peculiarly specialized adaptation is more often derived than ancestral ; the raptorial forelegs of mantids and the webbed feet of the platypus are specializations for ways of life that the ancestors of insects and mammals ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Evolutionary Biology |
| Autore | Douglas J. Futuyma |
| 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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