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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... POPULATION SIZE The rate of gene frequency change by genetic drift depends on the size of a population , not the total number of individuals that make up the species . But measuring the size of such local populations is not an easy task ...
... POPULATION SIZE The rate of gene frequency change by genetic drift depends on the size of a population , not the total number of individuals that make up the species . But measuring the size of such local populations is not an easy task ...
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... population structure on the rate of evolution . He argued that the " optimal " population the structure that promotes the most rapid , sustained evolution of a species as a whole is a complex of small populations among which there is ...
... population structure on the rate of evolution . He argued that the " optimal " population the structure that promotes the most rapid , sustained evolution of a species as a whole is a complex of small populations among which there is ...
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... , instead of predicting genetic divergence from a knowledge of population sizes and the length of time two populations have been isolated , we might determine the length of separation from a knowledge of the population POPULATION STRUCTURE ...
... , instead of predicting genetic divergence from a knowledge of population sizes and the length of time two populations have been isolated , we might determine the length of separation from a knowledge of the population POPULATION STRUCTURE ...
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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