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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... evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley attempted to develop an " evolutionary ethics " that would lead inexorably to higher consciousness and humanitarianism . Throughout all such thinking runs the supposition that what is natural is good ...
... evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley attempted to develop an " evolutionary ethics " that would lead inexorably to higher consciousness and humanitarianism . Throughout all such thinking runs the supposition that what is natural is good ...
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... evolutionary mechanisms has ex- panded to incorporate new information , new questions , and new controversies . The elucidation of the molecular basis of heredity since 1953 , when Watson and Crick proposed the structure of DNA , has ...
... evolutionary mechanisms has ex- panded to incorporate new information , new questions , and new controversies . The elucidation of the molecular basis of heredity since 1953 , when Watson and Crick proposed the structure of DNA , has ...
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... Evolutionary mechanisms . See Evolution , factors in Evolutionary reversal , 295–299 Evolutionary synthesis . See Modern Synthesis ; Neo - Darwinian theory Exon , 47-48 , 474 Exploitation , defined , 30 Expressivity , 53 Extinction ...
... Evolutionary mechanisms . See Evolution , factors in Evolutionary reversal , 295–299 Evolutionary synthesis . See Modern Synthesis ; Neo - Darwinian theory Exon , 47-48 , 474 Exploitation , defined , 30 Expressivity , 53 Extinction ...
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CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS | 7 |
EVOLUTION SINCE THE SYNTHESIS | 13 |
ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT | 19 |
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