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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... direction , if not advance toward a goal , but neither direction nor goal are provided by the mechanisms of evolu- tion . Least of all , despite popular conceptions , can evolution be conceived of as being directed toward the emergence ...
... direction , if not advance toward a goal , but neither direction nor goal are provided by the mechanisms of evolu- tion . Least of all , despite popular conceptions , can evolution be conceived of as being directed toward the emergence ...
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... direction on the template strand , creating a copy of opposite polarity ( i.e. , the copy grows from 5 ' to 3 ' ) . IN TRANSCRIPTION , one of the strands of the DNA duplex acts as a template for the synthesis of a single - stranded RNA ...
... direction on the template strand , creating a copy of opposite polarity ( i.e. , the copy grows from 5 ' to 3 ' ) . IN TRANSCRIPTION , one of the strands of the DNA duplex acts as a template for the synthesis of a single - stranded RNA ...
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... direction , intensity , and even the existence of selection at a locus depends on the environment and on the genetic milieu in which the locus functions . Thus no generalizations can be made about the strength of selection ; the concept ...
... direction , intensity , and even the existence of selection at a locus depends on the environment and on the genetic milieu in which the locus functions . Thus no generalizations can be made about the strength of selection ; the concept ...
Sommario
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