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. THE FOSSIL RECORD Of the images of the living world that we carry with us from child- hood , few can be as impressive as that of the dinosaurs . However romanticized our images of such creatures may be , their ...
Douglas J. Futuyma. THE FOSSIL RECORD Of the images of the living world that we carry with us from child- hood , few can be as impressive as that of the dinosaurs . However romanticized our images of such creatures may be , their ...
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... fossil record have happened at a constant rate thus remains to be determined . IS DIVERSITY IN EQUILIBRIUM ? As rates of origination and extinction change , so does the diversity of a group . Various patterns of diversity are ...
... fossil record have happened at a constant rate thus remains to be determined . IS DIVERSITY IN EQUILIBRIUM ? As rates of origination and extinction change , so does the diversity of a group . Various patterns of diversity are ...
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... fossil record , but in fact this is seldom the case ( Schaeffer , Hecht , and Eldredge 1972 ) . Only if a character state is ubiquitous among the fossil members of a group known to have included the ancestors of a modern taxon can the ...
... fossil record , but in fact this is seldom the case ( Schaeffer , Hecht , and Eldredge 1972 ) . Only if a character state is ubiquitous among the fossil members of a group known to have included the ancestors of a modern taxon can the ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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