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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Fossils can provide corroboration of relationships : for example , reptiles appear before mammals , and there are numerous intermediates between the two groups . But relationships cannot be inferred solely from temporal sequences of ...
Fossils can provide corroboration of relationships : for example , reptiles appear before mammals , and there are numerous intermediates between the two groups . But relationships cannot be inferred solely from temporal sequences of ...
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In this case the fossil record confirms what we can deduce equally well from the outgroup criterion , since the multipletoed condition is general among the orders of mammals . In contrast , the Litopterna , an extinct order of South ...
In this case the fossil record confirms what we can deduce equally well from the outgroup criterion , since the multipletoed condition is general among the orders of mammals . In contrast , the Litopterna , an extinct order of South ...
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Late in the Triassic , at about the same time as the first dinosaurs evolved , some of the therapsids — the mammal - like reptiles that had arisen in the Permian - approached the mammalian condition so closely that some of them are ...
Late in the Triassic , at about the same time as the first dinosaurs evolved , some of the therapsids — the mammal - like reptiles that had arisen in the Permian - approached the mammalian condition so closely that some of them are ...
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Sommario
CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS | 7 |
ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT | 19 |
COMPLEX INTERACTIONS AMONG SPECIES | 34 |
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adaptive advantage allele frequency America animals appear arise average become behavior biological birds caused Chapter characteristics characters chromosomes common competition condition correlated depends derived determined differentiation direct distribution diversity Drosophila ecological effect environment enzyme equilibrium evidence evolution evolutionary evolved example exist extinction factors families favor females Figure fitness fossil function gene gene flow genetic drift genotypes geographic greater groups growth heterozygotes higher human hybrid important increase individual interactions isolation less linkage loci locus lower major males mammals mating mean mechanisms morphological mutation natural selection occur offspring organisms origin pairs pattern phenotype plants Pleistocene polymorphic population possible predators present probability recombination reduced region relative represent reproductive response sequence similar single sometimes speciation species structure taxa term theory tion trait usually variance variation vary
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 |