Evolutionary BiologyCovers 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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Competition by EXPLOITATION occurs when one individual consumes a
resource and makes it unavailable to others ; the competing individuals may
never actually meet . Competition by INTERFERENCE Occurs when two
individuals directly ...
Competition by EXPLOITATION occurs when one individual consumes a
resource and makes it unavailable to others ; the competing individuals may
never actually meet . Competition by INTERFERENCE Occurs when two
individuals directly ...
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LEVELS OF SELECTION Under ordinary natural selection , alleles increase in
frequency if they enhance the fitness of their bearers , relative to that of
genetically different individuals in the same population . By this mechanism , a
trait cannot ...
LEVELS OF SELECTION Under ordinary natural selection , alleles increase in
frequency if they enhance the fitness of their bearers , relative to that of
genetically different individuals in the same population . By this mechanism , a
trait cannot ...
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A strategy is “ a specification of what an individual will do in any situation in which
it may find itself . " A strategy may be pure , meaning that the individual always
has the same phenotype , or it may be mixed , meaning that the phenotype of the
...
A strategy is “ a specification of what an individual will do in any situation in which
it may find itself . " A strategy may be pure , meaning that the individual always
has the same phenotype , or it may be mixed , meaning that the phenotype of the
...
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Sommario
CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS | 7 |
ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT | 19 |
COMPLEX INTERACTIONS AMONG SPECIES | 34 |
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Evolutionary Biology |
| Autore | Douglas J. Futuyma |
| Edizione | 2, illustrata |
| Editore | Sinauer Associates, 1986 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 27 gen 2010 |
| ISBN | 0878931880, 9780878931880 |
| Lunghezza | 600 pagine |
| Esporta citazione | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |