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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... phylogenetic statements on faith , for infer- ring phylogenetic histories can be difficult . For this reason I think it appropriate to close this chapter with some consideration of how it might be done . Phylogenetic inference is ...
... phylogenetic statements on faith , for infer- ring phylogenetic histories can be difficult . For this reason I think it appropriate to close this chapter with some consideration of how it might be done . Phylogenetic inference is ...
Pagina 152
... phylogenetic trees , whereas all nonhomoplasious char- acters give the same phylogenetic tree . The only systematic factor tending to make some groups of species share more derived states than others is thus common ancestry , and the ...
... phylogenetic trees , whereas all nonhomoplasious char- acters give the same phylogenetic tree . The only systematic factor tending to make some groups of species share more derived states than others is thus common ancestry , and the ...
Pagina 155
... phylogenetic histories , determine when in geological time each major phylogenetic event occurred , and infer the characteristics of ancestral forms . Such phylogenetic inferences are largely reflected by the structure of taxonomic ...
... phylogenetic histories , determine when in geological time each major phylogenetic event occurred , and infer the characteristics of ancestral forms . Such phylogenetic inferences are largely reflected by the structure of taxonomic ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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