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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... present features of organisms cannot be understood solely in terms of existing genetic variations and selection pressures . Rather , present features are in part determined by the devel- opmental processes that translate genotypes into ...
... present features of organisms cannot be understood solely in terms of existing genetic variations and selection pressures . Rather , present features are in part determined by the devel- opmental processes that translate genotypes into ...
Pagina 343
... present . Whatever genetic or ecological equilibria may have ex- isted before the Pleistocene were probably destabilized by its vicissitudes ; there has not been enough time since then for genetic and ecological equilibria to be fully ...
... present . Whatever genetic or ecological equilibria may have ex- isted before the Pleistocene were probably destabilized by its vicissitudes ; there has not been enough time since then for genetic and ecological equilibria to be fully ...
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... present distribution in South America and Madagascar is surely a consequence of continental drift followed by widespread extinction . The fossil record of many other groups with a disjunct southern continent distribution , such as the ...
... present distribution in South America and Madagascar is surely a consequence of continental drift followed by widespread extinction . The fossil record of many other groups with a disjunct southern continent distribution , such as the ...
Sommario
CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS | 7 |
EVOLUTION SINCE THE SYNTHESIS | 13 |
ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT | 19 |
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