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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... South 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 ...
... South 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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... South America in the Miocene by dispersing across the Central American chain of islands ( Simpson 1980 , Reig 1981 ) . Platyrrhine monkeys such as capuchins and caviomorph rodents such as guinea pigs , on the other hand , are endemic South ...
... South America in the Miocene by dispersing across the Central American chain of islands ( Simpson 1980 , Reig 1981 ) . Platyrrhine monkeys such as capuchins and caviomorph rodents such as guinea pigs , on the other hand , are endemic South ...
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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