Evolutionary BiologyFutuyma (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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Just as a political scientist cannot explain the present patterns of national
boundaries or of tensions among peoples without reference to the history of , say
, colonialism , a biologist may require a knowledge of the past to understand why
the ...
Just as a political scientist cannot explain the present patterns of national
boundaries or of tensions among peoples without reference to the history of , say
, colonialism , a biologist may require a knowledge of the past to understand why
the ...
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Precisely comparable questions apply to the spatial distribution of organisms at
present . Why , for example , is the diversity of most groups of organisms greater
in the tropics than at higher latitudes ? Why are lungfishes found in South
America ...
Precisely comparable questions apply to the spatial distribution of organisms at
present . Why , for example , is the diversity of most groups of organisms greater
in the tropics than at higher latitudes ? Why are lungfishes found in South
America ...
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... A is in fact the accepted scheme . present ( 0 ) , absent ( 1 ) Mandibles present
( 1 ) , absent ( 0 ) Scales Wing veins many ( O ) , few ( 1 ) 6 ( 0 ) , 4 ( 1 ) present ( 1
) , absent ( 0 ) Larval crochets present ( 1 ) , absent ( 0 ) Larval silk glands Legs ...
... A is in fact the accepted scheme . present ( 0 ) , absent ( 1 ) Mandibles present
( 1 ) , absent ( 0 ) Scales Wing veins many ( O ) , few ( 1 ) 6 ( 0 ) , 4 ( 1 ) present ( 1
) , absent ( 0 ) Larval crochets present ( 1 ) , absent ( 0 ) Larval silk glands Legs ...
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Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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adaptive advantageous alleles alterations ancestor 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 equal equilibrium evidence evolution evolutionary evolved example exist extinction factors females 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 proportion recombination relative reproduction response sexual similar single speciation species structure suggests theory tion variance vary
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Evolutionary Biology |
| Autore | Douglas J. Futuyma |
| Illustrato da | Sarah Landry |
| 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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