Evolutionary BiologyFutuyma (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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The number of species S on the island increases as new species immigrate and decreases as species already present become extinct . When the rates of immigration ( I ) and extinction ( E ) are equal ( where the curves cross ) ...
The number of species S on the island increases as new species immigrate and decreases as species already present become extinct . When the rates of immigration ( I ) and extinction ( E ) are equal ( where the curves cross ) ...
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species are doomed to almost immediate extinction through competitive exclusion . Most such species are not fossilized , since their extinction follows so quickly on the heels of their genesis . Thus it is difficult to tell from the ...
species are doomed to almost immediate extinction through competitive exclusion . Most such species are not fossilized , since their extinction follows so quickly on the heels of their genesis . Thus it is difficult to tell from the ...
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Groups may flourish most after competing groups have become extinct ; it is possible , but largely unproven ... Extinction rates may be fairly constant for each taxonomic group , although there have been several episodes of mass ...
Groups may flourish most after competing groups have become extinct ; it is possible , but largely unproven ... Extinction rates may be fairly constant for each taxonomic group , although there have been several episodes of mass ...
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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
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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