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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... developmental biology are central to the problem of why some characters can evolve more readily than others . Much of the progress in developmental biology bears only a tenuous , hy- pothetical relation to evolutionary studies . The ...
... developmental biology are central to the problem of why some characters can evolve more readily than others . Much of the progress in developmental biology bears only a tenuous , hy- pothetical relation to evolutionary studies . The ...
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... DEVELOPMENTAL CONSTRAINTS ( Alberch 1982 , Maynard Smith et al . 1985 ) . Pop- ulation genetics describes the fate of variations once they arise , but does not predict which variations will arise and which will not . The study of ...
... DEVELOPMENTAL CONSTRAINTS ( Alberch 1982 , Maynard Smith et al . 1985 ) . Pop- ulation genetics describes the fate of variations once they arise , but does not predict which variations will arise and which will not . The study of ...
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... Developmental constraints ; Developmental homeostasis ; Developmental integration ; Ontogeny as epigenetic , 426 mechanisms of , 425 , 435-436 processes of , 58-59 Developmental constraints , 91 , 255-257 , 369 , 437-438 Developmental ...
... Developmental constraints ; Developmental homeostasis ; Developmental integration ; Ontogeny as epigenetic , 426 mechanisms of , 425 , 435-436 processes of , 58-59 Developmental constraints , 91 , 255-257 , 369 , 437-438 Developmental ...
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CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS | 7 |
EVOLUTION SINCE THE SYNTHESIS | 13 |
ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT | 19 |
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adaptive advantage allele allele frequency animals appear arise associated average become behavior biological cause cells Chapter characteristics characters chromosome common competition condition conversion copies correlation depends determined developmental differentiation distribution divergence Drosophila ecological effect elements environment enzyme equilibrium evidence evolution evolutionary evolved example exist expression extinction factors Figure fitness fossil frequency function gene genetic genetic drift genome genotypes geographic greater groups growth higher host human hybrid important increase individual insects interactions isolation less linkage loci locus lower major males mating mean mechanisms morphological mutation natural selection occur organisms origin pairs pattern phenotypic plants Pleistocene polymorphism population possible predators Press probability proteins reduced region relationships relative represent reproductive response sequence similar single speciation species structure taxa term theory tion traits variance variation vary