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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... region representing tolerable combinations of temperature , prey size and salinity . To take into account other environmental factors , we would have to draw many more axes ; although we cannot do this , we can more or less conceive of ...
... region representing tolerable combinations of temperature , prey size and salinity . To take into account other environmental factors , we would have to draw many more axes ; although we cannot do this , we can more or less conceive of ...
Pagina 111
... region inhabited by a group , from which species would have emanated in all directions , was the site of its origin ... regions than others , resulting in a local pro- liferation of the group far from its site of origin . There are as ...
... region inhabited by a group , from which species would have emanated in all directions , was the site of its origin ... regions than others , resulting in a local pro- liferation of the group far from its site of origin . There are as ...
Pagina 410
... region from which it originally came and become sympatric with the parent form . with the many genetic backgrounds ... region as in another . By the law of large numbers , large regions are more similar to each other than are small areas ...
... region from which it originally came and become sympatric with the parent form . with the many genetic backgrounds ... region as in another . By the law of large numbers , large regions are more similar to each other than are small areas ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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