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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... mechanisms of evolution , we will do well to survey the history of life , for several reasons . The past may be the key to the present , in that the mechanisms of evolution operate within a framework of historical constraints . Patterns ...
... mechanisms of evolution , we will do well to survey the history of life , for several reasons . The past may be the key to the present , in that the mechanisms of evolution operate within a framework of historical constraints . Patterns ...
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... MECHANISMS ( Table I ) that inhibit interbreeding . Species may be temporally isolated , as are plants that have different flowering seasons ( see Grant and Grant 1964 ) or insects that mate at different times of night ( e.g. ...
... MECHANISMS ( Table I ) that inhibit interbreeding . Species may be temporally isolated , as are plants that have different flowering seasons ( see Grant and Grant 1964 ) or insects that mate at different times of night ( e.g. ...
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... mechanisms of speciation in ways we can only dimly foresee . Although we have probably identified all the mechanisms of evolution , some of these mechanisms remain " black boxes " whose precise operation we do not understand ; and the ...
... mechanisms of speciation in ways we can only dimly foresee . Although we have probably identified all the mechanisms of evolution , some of these mechanisms remain " black boxes " whose precise operation we do not understand ; and the ...
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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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