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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... behavior . A mixed strategy is a description of an individual's variable phenotype , not a genetic polymorphism . ESS models have been used mostly to analyze animal behavior ( especially conflicts between individuals ) , sex ratio and ...
... behavior . A mixed strategy is a description of an individual's variable phenotype , not a genetic polymorphism . ESS models have been used mostly to analyze animal behavior ( especially conflicts between individuals ) , sex ratio and ...
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... behavior itself . Few questions have evoked as much interest and contro- versy as the problem of how our behavior may be constrained by our genes . The arguments concern two distinct but related problems . In some cases the question is ...
... behavior itself . Few questions have evoked as much interest and contro- versy as the problem of how our behavior may be constrained by our genes . The arguments concern two distinct but related problems . In some cases the question is ...
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... behavior ( e.g. , pacifism ) does not lie within the behavioral norm of reaction . In fact , of course , human variation does embrace almost every imaginable behavior . But is it possible that the variations among human beings are the ...
... behavior ( e.g. , pacifism ) does not lie within the behavioral norm of reaction . In fact , of course , human variation does embrace almost every imaginable behavior . But is it possible that the variations among human beings are the ...
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CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS | 7 |
EVOLUTION SINCE THE SYNTHESIS | 13 |
ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT | 19 |
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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