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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... suggests that adaptive radiation at least sometimes depends not only on the acquisition of new adaptations , but also on the availability of ecological opportunities in which the adaptations can be exercised . Of course , we can tell in ...
... suggests that adaptive radiation at least sometimes depends not only on the acquisition of new adaptations , but also on the availability of ecological opportunities in which the adaptations can be exercised . Of course , we can tell in ...
Pagina 94
... suggests that throughout geological time , and in different parts of the earth , similar ecological opportunities become available and are eventually utilized by phyletic lines that evolve the appropriate adaptive machinery . The fossil ...
... suggests that throughout geological time , and in different parts of the earth , similar ecological opportunities become available and are eventually utilized by phyletic lines that evolve the appropriate adaptive machinery . The fossil ...
Pagina 381
... suggests that dominance is just one manifestation of canalization ; that heterozygotes may be better buffered than homozygotes because they lie closer to the middle of the canali- zation plateau ; that epistatic interactions ( among ...
... suggests that dominance is just one manifestation of canalization ; that heterozygotes may be better buffered than homozygotes because they lie closer to the middle of the canali- zation plateau ; that epistatic interactions ( among ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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