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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... environmental changes . Yet another alternative is to escape an environmental challenge by dormancy or by actively moving to a more tolerable environment . As important as the magnitude of the environmental variation is its ...
... environmental changes . Yet another alternative is to escape an environmental challenge by dormancy or by actively moving to a more tolerable environment . As important as the magnitude of the environmental variation is its ...
Pagina 344
... environmental variables such as temperature and nutrition influence bristle develop- ment or if other loci also ... environmental variation ( the ENVIRONMENTAL VARIANCE VE ) . Notice that Vp can be large either if the population is ...
... environmental variables such as temperature and nutrition influence bristle develop- ment or if other loci also ... environmental variation ( the ENVIRONMENTAL VARIANCE VE ) . Notice that Vp can be large either if the population is ...
Pagina 376
... environmental perturbations . PHENOCOPIES , GENETIC ASSIMILATION , AND CANALIZATION There is indeed no clear distinction between genetic and environmental disruptions of development . The same phenotypic abnormality may be produced by a ...
... environmental perturbations . PHENOCOPIES , GENETIC ASSIMILATION , AND CANALIZATION There is indeed no clear distinction between genetic and environmental disruptions of development . The same phenotypic abnormality may be produced by a ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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