Evolutionary BiologySinauer Associates, 1986 - 600 pagine Covers the genetic, developmental, and ecological mechanisms of evolutionary change, the major features of evolutionary history as revealed by phylogenetic and paleontological studies, and material on adaptation, molecular evolution, co-evolution, and human evolution. |
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... America , and , farther south , to the tops of mountains . During the glacials , lakes covered much of what is now desert in the American southwest . Desert pupfishes ( Cyprinodon ) and other aquatic organisms were once widely dispersed ...
... America , and , farther south , to the tops of mountains . During the glacials , lakes covered much of what is now desert in the American southwest . Desert pupfishes ( Cyprinodon ) and other aquatic organisms were once widely dispersed ...
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... America and Australia ; early Tertiary marsupial fossils have been found in Antarctica , which was still joined to South America and Australia in the late Cretaceous . The turtle genus Podocnemis was distributed over South America ...
... America and Australia ; early Tertiary marsupial fossils have been found in Antarctica , which was still joined to South America and Australia in the late Cretaceous . The turtle genus Podocnemis was distributed over South America ...
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... America and Australia . This implies separation of Africa from Gondwanaland before South America and Australia became separated . In ( B ) , each taxon at the top of the cladogram is a spe- cies group , numbered above in a rectangle ...
... America and Australia . This implies separation of Africa from Gondwanaland before South America and Australia became separated . In ( B ) , each taxon at the top of the cladogram is a spe- cies group , numbered above in a rectangle ...
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CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS | 7 |
EVOLUTION SINCE THE SYNTHESIS | 13 |
ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT | 19 |
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