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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... predators and pathogens and to capture , as food , species that have evolved elaborate capabilities of escape and defense . — In many cases predator - prey interactions are unstable and result in extinction . A predatory South American ...
... predators and pathogens and to capture , as food , species that have evolved elaborate capabilities of escape and defense . — In many cases predator - prey interactions are unstable and result in extinction . A predatory South American ...
Pagina 302
... predators approaching may benefit the flock , but not the individual who calls and thereby attracts the predator's attention . How , then , could an allele that disposes its bearer to such an altruistic act increase in frequency and not ...
... predators approaching may benefit the flock , but not the individual who calls and thereby attracts the predator's attention . How , then , could an allele that disposes its bearer to such an altruistic act increase in frequency and not ...
Pagina 461
... predator individuals P and prey individuals V. If V is low , the predator population declines ; if high , it increases . Therefore there is a value V = J at which the predator population does not change ( dP / dt = 0 ) . Similarly the ...
... predator individuals P and prey individuals V. If V is low , the predator population declines ; if high , it increases . Therefore there is a value V = J at which the predator population does not change ( dP / dt = 0 ) . Similarly the ...
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
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Evolutionary Biology |
| Autore | Douglas J. Futuyma |
| Edizione | illustrata |
| Editore | Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1979 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 23 feb 2010 |
| ISBN | 0878931996, 9780878931996 |
| Lunghezza | 565 pagine |
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