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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... change of average fitness is directly proportional to the additive genetic variance in fitness , 2pqs2 . R. A. Fisher ( 1930 ) , using a different derivation , concluded that in general the rate of change in fitness is actually equal to ...
... change of average fitness is directly proportional to the additive genetic variance in fitness , 2pqs2 . R. A. Fisher ( 1930 ) , using a different derivation , concluded that in general the rate of change in fitness is actually equal to ...
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... change . To ex- plain the pattern , they invoked Mayr's theory ( 1954 ) of peripatric speciation ( Chapter 8 ) , and proposed that most evolutionary change transpires rapidly in small , localized populations in concert with the ...
... change . To ex- plain the pattern , they invoked Mayr's theory ( 1954 ) of peripatric speciation ( Chapter 8 ) , and proposed that most evolutionary change transpires rapidly in small , localized populations in concert with the ...
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... evolution . The theory of neo - Darwinism is a theory of mechanisms . But it was erected to explain the existence of a history of evolutionary change . While the study of mechanism has held center stage , the study of history - through ...
... evolution . The theory of neo - Darwinism is a theory of mechanisms . But it was erected to explain the existence of a history of evolutionary change . While the study of mechanism has held center stage , the study of history - through ...
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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