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 183
... possible to define a macromutation operationally ? 5 Discuss the possible reasons for the degeneration and loss of a complex structure that no longer has any function . 6 Discuss the proposition that structural change in animals is ...
... possible to define a macromutation operationally ? 5 Discuss the possible reasons for the degeneration and loss of a complex structure that no longer has any function . 6 Discuss the proposition that structural change in animals is ...
Pagina 435
... possible worlds , the world of Platonic ideas , but in the mundane world of materials and history . It is very hard to prove to an " idealist " that a feature is suboptimal , of course , because he or she can always argue that the ...
... possible worlds , the world of Platonic ideas , but in the mundane world of materials and history . It is very hard to prove to an " idealist " that a feature is suboptimal , of course , because he or she can always argue that the ...
Pagina 436
... possible ( although unknowable ) that the " best " possible genotypes have simply never arisen by mutation and recombination . Some moths have evolved industrial melanism while others in the same habitats have not ; similarly relatively ...
... possible ( although unknowable ) that the " best " possible genotypes have simply never arisen by mutation and recombination . Some moths have evolved industrial melanism while others in the same habitats have not ; similarly relatively ...
Sommario
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