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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... evidence or , just as often , new ways of viewing old evidence , forces us to reconsider entrenched ideas , to refine or abandon old hypotheses , to stay intellectually young . I have tried to convey the dynamic state of evolutionary ...
... evidence or , just as often , new ways of viewing old evidence , forces us to reconsider entrenched ideas , to refine or abandon old hypotheses , to stay intellectually young . I have tried to convey the dynamic state of evolutionary ...
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... evidence for reproductive isolation ; for example , the existence of two homozygotes but no heterozygotes at an enzyme locus sometimes provides such evidence . Except in self - fertilizing or parthenogenetic forms , a strong cor ...
... evidence for reproductive isolation ; for example , the existence of two homozygotes but no heterozygotes at an enzyme locus sometimes provides such evidence . Except in self - fertilizing or parthenogenetic forms , a strong cor ...
Pagina 364
... evidence . The most recent catastrophic theory - for which there is considerable evidence has been offered specifically for the extinction at the end of the Cre- taceous . Alvarez et al . ( 1980 ) suggested that an asteroid or large ...
... evidence . The most recent catastrophic theory - for which there is considerable evidence has been offered specifically for the extinction at the end of the Cre- taceous . Alvarez et al . ( 1980 ) suggested that an asteroid or large ...
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CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS | 7 |
EVOLUTION SINCE THE SYNTHESIS | 13 |
ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT | 19 |
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