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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... exist in the transcendent world of ideas . In this philosophy of essentialism , variation has no meaning ; only essences matter . Christian theology adopted an almost literal interpretation of the Bible , in- cluding special creation ...
... exist in the transcendent world of ideas . In this philosophy of essentialism , variation has no meaning ; only essences matter . Christian theology adopted an almost literal interpretation of the Bible , in- cluding special creation ...
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... exist and are common . Likewise , observation can tell us which of the innumerable complexities that might exist are important , and which can be ignored . Moreover , theory will often provide several competing explanations for an ...
... exist and are common . Likewise , observation can tell us which of the innumerable complexities that might exist are important , and which can be ignored . Moreover , theory will often provide several competing explanations for an ...
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... exist mecha- nisms that restrict recombination . ( The most extreme such mechanism is asexual reproduction , and it is common for asexual populations to be dominated by a few clones that differ at several or many loci , so that these ...
... exist mecha- nisms that restrict recombination . ( The most extreme such mechanism is asexual reproduction , and it is common for asexual populations to be dominated by a few clones that differ at several or many loci , so that these ...
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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