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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... theory of evolutionary change was at a nadir ; it was rejected not only by Mendelian geneticists , but by many paleontologists , who espoused " orthoge- netic , " or directional theories that relied either on intrinsic goal - directed ...
... theory of evolutionary change was at a nadir ; it was rejected not only by Mendelian geneticists , but by many paleontologists , who espoused " orthoge- netic , " or directional theories that relied either on intrinsic goal - directed ...
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... THEORY A few words must be said about " the theory of evolution , " which most people take to mean the proposition that organisms have evolved from common ances- tors . In everyday speech , " theory " often means a hypothesis or even a ...
... THEORY A few words must be said about " the theory of evolution , " which most people take to mean the proposition that organisms have evolved from common ances- tors . In everyday speech , " theory " often means a hypothesis or even a ...
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... theory's favor . Whatever elaborations of evolutionary theory develop in the future , they must be compatible with and include random ( i.e. , not adap- tively directed ) mutations , individual selection , and the rest of population ge ...
... theory's favor . Whatever elaborations of evolutionary theory develop in the future , they must be compatible with and include random ( i.e. , not adap- tively directed ) mutations , individual selection , and the rest of population ge ...
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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