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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... similar in name than in struc- ture . Convergent evolution often results in such similar features that we would be hard put to identify them as convergent if other features did not indicate that the groups are unrelated . Herbaceous ...
... similar in name than in struc- ture . Convergent evolution often results in such similar features that we would be hard put to identify them as convergent if other features did not indicate that the groups are unrelated . Herbaceous ...
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... similar in their adaptations . Thus in the temperate zone , a regime of cool wet winters and hot dry summers - a " Mediterranean climate " -fosters the development of a chaparral - like , shrubby , fire - resistant vegetation which is ...
... similar in their adaptations . Thus in the temperate zone , a regime of cool wet winters and hot dry summers - a " Mediterranean climate " -fosters the development of a chaparral - like , shrubby , fire - resistant vegetation which is ...
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... similar in having a long , thin beak that enables them to probe deep into flowers . Different North American deserts have similar associations of seed - eating rodents , with corresponding niches filled by species that are not ...
... similar in having a long , thin beak that enables them to probe deep into flowers . Different North American deserts have similar associations of seed - eating rodents , with corresponding niches filled by species that are not ...
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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