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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... speciation in this case is perhaps aberrant , since it is probably due to adaptation to genetic change in an intracellular symbiont that renders hybrids sterile . The pace of speciation , then , as of evolutionary change in general ...
... speciation in this case is perhaps aberrant , since it is probably due to adaptation to genetic change in an intracellular symbiont that renders hybrids sterile . The pace of speciation , then , as of evolutionary change in general ...
Pagina 430
... speciation has been accomplished in a few thousand generations , or even far less . It is during the process of speciation that shifts in ecological role are often accomplished , especially when novel ecological opportunities are ...
... speciation has been accomplished in a few thousand generations , or even far less . It is during the process of speciation that shifts in ecological role are often accomplished , especially when novel ecological opportunities are ...
Pagina 432
... speciation lead to adaptive breakthroughs , to quantum evolution , with any great frequency ? The contrasts between speciation on islands and on continents may be informative . Is the potential for quantum evolution limited more by ...
... speciation lead to adaptive breakthroughs , to quantum evolution , with any great frequency ? The contrasts between speciation on islands and on continents may be informative . Is the potential for quantum evolution limited more by ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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