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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0 10 Families surviving ( log scale ) 13 A survivorship curve , the paleontological
analogue of the 1r curve in demography , showing the number of echinoid
families that have survived for x million years . The dashed line shows a
theoretical ...
0 10 Families surviving ( log scale ) 13 A survivorship curve , the paleontological
analogue of the 1r curve in demography , showing the number of echinoid
families that have survived for x million years . The dashed line shows a
theoretical ...
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It has survived only on New Zealand , but the family did not originate there ;
fossils are known from Africa , Eurasia , and North ... This is proven by the
complete absence from South America of any of the very diverse families of North
American ...
It has survived only on New Zealand , but the family did not originate there ;
fossils are known from Africa , Eurasia , and North ... This is proven by the
complete absence from South America of any of the very diverse families of North
American ...
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... relationships among the taxa . But if one is to argue that families A and B had ...
If the members of a family have had a single common ancestor , the family is a
MONOPHYLETIC group , otherwise it is POLYPHYLETIC . Existing biological ...
... relationships among the taxa . But if one is to argue that families A and B had ...
If the members of a family have had a single common ancestor , the family is a
MONOPHYLETIC group , otherwise it is POLYPHYLETIC . Existing biological ...
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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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adaptive advantageous alleles alterations ancestor 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 equal equilibrium evidence evolution evolutionary evolved example exist extinction factors females 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 proportion recombination relative reproduction response sexual similar single speciation species structure suggests theory tion variance vary
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| Titolo | Evolutionary Biology |
| Autore | Douglas J. Futuyma |
| Illustrato da | Sarah Landry |
| 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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