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 101
... lineage could do the same , so that the diversity of the group could increase or decrease as speciations or ... lineages THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY 101.
... lineage could do the same , so that the diversity of the group could increase or decrease as speciations or ... lineages THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY 101.
Pagina 132
... lineage than another ; and in each lineage the two char- acters often differed in their rate of change . A species does not evolve through time by a progression of concerted changes in all its attributes ; nor does a daughter species ...
... lineage than another ; and in each lineage the two char- acters often differed in their rate of change . A species does not evolve through time by a progression of concerted changes in all its attributes ; nor does a daughter species ...
Pagina 444
... lineage to speciate or become extinct at random , produced clades of hypothetical organisms that increased and decreased in species diversity in ways that mimicked the changes observed in the fossil record . Raup and Gould ( 1974 ) ...
... lineage to speciate or become extinct at random , produced clades of hypothetical organisms that increased and decreased in species diversity in ways that mimicked the changes observed in the fossil record . Raup and Gould ( 1974 ) ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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