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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... distribution depends strongly on a knowledge of historical changes in climates , geography , and species ' distri- butions , but the relationship between geology and biogeography is a mutualistic one . The geologist's evidence of the ...
... distribution depends strongly on a knowledge of historical changes in climates , geography , and species ' distri- butions , but the relationship between geology and biogeography is a mutualistic one . The geologist's evidence of the ...
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... distribution ( South and Central America , Madagascar , and Polynesia ) . How have all these patterns of distribution come about ? CAUSES OF GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS A possible explanation of a taxon's distribution is that the group ...
... distribution ( South and Central America , Madagascar , and Polynesia ) . How have all these patterns of distribution come about ? CAUSES OF GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS A possible explanation of a taxon's distribution is that the group ...
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... distribution of taxa that already existed when the disjunction of continental land masses took place . For example , the Mesozoic breakup of Gondwanaland ( Figure 1 in Chapter 11 ) can explain the distribution of ancient groups such as ...
... distribution of taxa that already existed when the disjunction of continental land masses took place . For example , the Mesozoic breakup of Gondwanaland ( Figure 1 in Chapter 11 ) can explain the distribution of ancient groups such as ...
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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