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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... families of plants had acquired their distinguishing features by the first Tertiary epoch , the Paleocene , and most of the modern insect families of which there is any substantial fossil record appear to have become differentiated at ...
... families of plants had acquired their distinguishing features by the first Tertiary epoch , the Paleocene , and most of the modern insect families of which there is any substantial fossil record appear to have become differentiated at ...
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... families 900 600 300 Pz 224 Md 1900 Cm 0 V € O S D C P Ћ J K T 600 400 200 FIGURE 2 The history of the taxonomic diversity of marine animal families during the Pha- nerozoic . The uppermost line is the total number of families . The ...
... families 900 600 300 Pz 224 Md 1900 Cm 0 V € O S D C P Ћ J K T 600 400 200 FIGURE 2 The history of the taxonomic diversity of marine animal families during the Pha- nerozoic . The uppermost line is the total number of families . The ...
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... families did not become extinct that would have if the Cambrian extinction rate had been sustained . This lessening of the extinction rate can account for the net increase in the number of marine animal families during the Phanerozoic ...
... families did not become extinct that would have if the Cambrian extinction rate had been sustained . This lessening of the extinction rate can account for the net increase in the number of marine animal families during the Phanerozoic ...
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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