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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Douglas J. Futuyma. COMPETITION AMONG SPECIES Competition among species may take either of two general forms . Competition by EXPLOITATION occurs when one individual consumes a resource and makes it unavailable to others ; the competing ...
Douglas J. Futuyma. COMPETITION AMONG SPECIES Competition among species may take either of two general forms . Competition by EXPLOITATION occurs when one individual consumes a resource and makes it unavailable to others ; the competing ...
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... Competition and adaptive radiation Beginning with Darwin , biologists have invoked competition as an important force affecting the diversification of species . On the one hand , competitors may prevent a species from evolving to use a ...
... Competition and adaptive radiation Beginning with Darwin , biologists have invoked competition as an important force affecting the diversification of species . On the one hand , competitors may prevent a species from evolving to use a ...
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... competition with other phe- notypes of both the same and the other species . The mean phenotype of each species therefore evolves to maximize mean fitness . Slatkin found that the amount of character displacement is ordinarily very ...
... competition with other phe- notypes of both the same and the other species . The mean phenotype of each species therefore evolves to maximize mean fitness . Slatkin found that the amount of character displacement is ordinarily very ...
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CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS | 7 |
EVOLUTION SINCE THE SYNTHESIS | 13 |
ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT | 19 |
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