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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Douglas J. Futuyma. A Diversity ( per cent of maximum ) 100 75 50 25 0 Triassic Silurian Devonian Permian Cambrian Jurassic Ordovician Cretaceous Carboniferous Cenozoic Diversity ( per cent of maximum ) B ( A ) The fossil record ...
Douglas J. Futuyma. A Diversity ( per cent of maximum ) 100 75 50 25 0 Triassic Silurian Devonian Permian Cambrian Jurassic Ordovician Cretaceous Carboniferous Cenozoic Diversity ( per cent of maximum ) B ( A ) The fossil record ...
Pagina 103
... diversity of invertebrates dropped accordingly . Both before and after the mass extinction , diversity fol- lowed the species - area relation ScA ; diversity , they argue , had simply dropped to the new equilibrium determined by the ...
... diversity of invertebrates dropped accordingly . Both before and after the mass extinction , diversity fol- lowed the species - area relation ScA ; diversity , they argue , had simply dropped to the new equilibrium determined by the ...
Pagina 119
... diversity . At each of several sites in the Panama Canal Zone ( C ) and in Puerto Rico ( P ) , where the diversity of bird species is lower , measurements were taken of bird diversity and of the amount of foliage at several levels above ...
... diversity . At each of several sites in the Panama Canal Zone ( C ) and in Puerto Rico ( P ) , where the diversity of bird species is lower , measurements were taken of bird diversity and of the amount of foliage at several levels above ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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