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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... increase . 60 80 Clearly a population's potential rate of increase may be very different from its actual rate of increase . The death rate & may actually be great enough to equal the birth rate b , so that r = 0. Thus the ACTUAL RATE OF ...
... increase . 60 80 Clearly a population's potential rate of increase may be very different from its actual rate of increase . The death rate & may actually be great enough to equal the birth rate b , so that r = 0. Thus the ACTUAL RATE OF ...
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... increase when crowding is least . Because such populations are relatively stable ( r , the instantaneous rate of increase , is zero ) , a genotype with the capacity for rapid increase under uncrowded conditions ( rm large ) can be ...
... increase when crowding is least . Because such populations are relatively stable ( r , the instantaneous rate of increase , is zero ) , a genotype with the capacity for rapid increase under uncrowded conditions ( rm large ) can be ...
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... increased mutation rates , is real , although such an increase has not been documented . But even a substantial increase in the rate of mutation would have almost unnoticeable effects because natural mutation rates are so low ( Chapter ...
... increased mutation rates , is real , although such an increase has not been documented . But even a substantial increase in the rate of mutation would have almost unnoticeable effects because natural mutation rates are so low ( Chapter ...
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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