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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... Pleistocene ( Stanley 1979 ) . Species of pup- fish ( Cyprinodon ) have developed in the Death Valley region since the extensive lakes that existed there in the Pleistocene became reduced to isolated springs 20,000-30,000 years ago ...
... Pleistocene ( Stanley 1979 ) . Species of pup- fish ( Cyprinodon ) have developed in the Death Valley region since the extensive lakes that existed there in the Pleistocene became reduced to isolated springs 20,000-30,000 years ago ...
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... Pleistocene epoch about two million years ago ; the last 10,000 years or so are referred to as the Recent or Holocene . Aside from genera that became extinct without issue , the Pleistocene biota consists of forms so similar to Recent ...
... Pleistocene epoch about two million years ago ; the last 10,000 years or so are referred to as the Recent or Holocene . Aside from genera that became extinct without issue , the Pleistocene biota consists of forms so similar to Recent ...
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... Pleistocene , and that not many species became extinct during the Pleistocene anyway . However , the Pleistocene glaciations are not the only important historical event . Not until the late Oligocene did the present pronounced ...
... Pleistocene , and that not many species became extinct during the Pleistocene anyway . However , the Pleistocene glaciations are not the only important historical event . Not until the late Oligocene did the present pronounced ...
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adaptive adaptive radiation allele frequency allozyme Amer amino acid ancestor animals average behavior biological birds bristle number caused cells Chapter characters chromosome cladistic coefficient coevolution competition copies correlated deleterious developmental differentiation distribution divergence Dobzhansky Drosophila melanogaster ecological effect environment environmental enzyme equilibrium evidence evolutionary change evolved example extinction rate factors favor females Figure fitness fossil record function Futuyma gametes gene conversion gene flow gene frequencies genetic drift genetic variation genome genotypes geographic groups habitats heritability heterozygotes heterozygous higher taxa homozygotes homozygous host human hybrid inbreeding increase individual insects interactions Lewontin linkage disequilibrium loci locus males mammals mating mechanisms molecular morphological mutation natural selection nucleotide occur offspring organisms pairs parasites pattern phenotype phylogenetic phylogeny plants polymorphism predators prey proteins pseudogenes random recombination relative reproductive isolation sequence sexual similar speciation structure survival sympatric taxon theory tion trait transposable elements variable variance