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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... organisms of a species was not mere imperfection , but the material from which selection could fashion better adapted forms of life . Darwin transformed the Malthusian principle of competition by applying it not only to competition ...
... organisms of a species was not mere imperfection , but the material from which selection could fashion better adapted forms of life . Darwin transformed the Malthusian principle of competition by applying it not only to competition ...
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... organisms : genealogy , whereby the explanation is found in an organ- ism's ancestry , and adaptation , whereby it is found in the organism's conditions of life . In physiology , the word " adaptation " is often used to describe an ...
... organisms : genealogy , whereby the explanation is found in an organ- ism's ancestry , and adaptation , whereby it is found in the organism's conditions of life . In physiology , the word " adaptation " is often used to describe an ...
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... organisms . The adaptation may be illusory To illustrate this principle , consider that it is to a population's long ... organisms ( Williams 1966 ) . For ex- ample , many organisms reduce their reproductive rate as population density ...
... organisms . The adaptation may be illusory To illustrate this principle , consider that it is to a population's long ... organisms ( Williams 1966 ) . For ex- ample , many organisms reduce their reproductive rate as population density ...
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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