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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... ecological world . Chief among these are the internal relationships among biochemical and developmental pathways , and among different organs , that im- pose selection by requiring that new features be compatible with the rest of the ...
... ecological world . Chief among these are the internal relationships among biochemical and developmental pathways , and among different organs , that im- pose selection by requiring that new features be compatible with the rest of the ...
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... ecology and geology , for the an- swers to some biogeographic questions are more ecological and for others more historical . An understanding of present patterns of distribution depends strongly on a knowledge of historical changes in ...
... ecology and geology , for the an- swers to some biogeographic questions are more ecological and for others more historical . An understanding of present patterns of distribution depends strongly on a knowledge of historical changes in ...
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... ecological pro- cesses , therefore , may set a lower limit to the connectance of communities . Ecological theory predicts that specialized ecological relationships between mutualists or between predators and prey should be more ...
... ecological pro- cesses , therefore , may set a lower limit to the connectance of communities . Ecological theory predicts that specialized ecological relationships between mutualists or between predators and prey should be more ...
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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