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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... major reference on the subject ; a major compilation of information , invested with a controversial interpretation . Antedates the general acceptance of continental drift . Good , R. 1947. The geography of flowering plants . Longmans ...
... major reference on the subject ; a major compilation of information , invested with a controversial interpretation . Antedates the general acceptance of continental drift . Good , R. 1947. The geography of flowering plants . Longmans ...
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... Major evolutionary changes may occur by QUANTUM EVOLUTION , to use Simpson's term , or by punctuated equilibria , to use Eldredge and Gould's ( Chapter 7 , Figure 1 ) . New characters , including those diagnostic of major new groups ...
... Major evolutionary changes may occur by QUANTUM EVOLUTION , to use Simpson's term , or by punctuated equilibria , to use Eldredge and Gould's ( Chapter 7 , Figure 1 ) . New characters , including those diagnostic of major new groups ...
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... major ( sc ) and minor genes that they regulate . Investigating correlated responses to selection , Rendel found that replacing an sc allele by a + allele raises both the number of scutellar and abdominal bristles , while selection for ...
... major ( sc ) and minor genes that they regulate . Investigating correlated responses to selection , Rendel found that replacing an sc allele by a + allele raises both the number of scutellar and abdominal bristles , while selection for ...
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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