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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Pagina 67
... interactions among species are widespread and important . Amensalism , wherein one species benefits from another without affecting it in turn , is so common that we often do not notice it : owls roosting in abandoned woodpecker holes ...
... interactions among species are widespread and important . Amensalism , wherein one species benefits from another without affecting it in turn , is so common that we often do not notice it : owls roosting in abandoned woodpecker holes ...
Pagina 453
... interactions feed back on the interactions themselves ; thus the species composition . and structure of ecological communities can be affected by the processes of coevolution . COEVOLUTION may be broadly defined ( Roughgarden 1976 ) as ...
... interactions feed back on the interactions themselves ; thus the species composition . and structure of ecological communities can be affected by the processes of coevolution . COEVOLUTION may be broadly defined ( Roughgarden 1976 ) as ...
Pagina 469
... interaction with native species . If rapid evolution is rarely found , what role can individual selection play in stabilizing otherwise unstable ecological interactions ? 3 Evaluate the assumptions in the arguments of Rosenzweig ( 1973 ) ...
... interaction with native species . If rapid evolution is rarely found , what role can individual selection play in stabilizing otherwise unstable ecological interactions ? 3 Evaluate the assumptions in the arguments of Rosenzweig ( 1973 ) ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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