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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... record is too fragmentary to be useful . Even in groups with a good fossil record , there are seldom evenly graded series of fossils between old and young forms ( Chapter 12 ) . There are often reasons to believe that a fossil species ...
... record is too fragmentary to be useful . Even in groups with a good fossil record , there are seldom evenly graded series of fossils between old and young forms ( Chapter 12 ) . There are often reasons to believe that a fossil species ...
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Douglas J. Futuyma. 5. Creationists often claim that the fossil record provides no evidence for the evolution of ... fossil record . Elsevier , Amsterdam . 591 pages . Highly informative , interpretive essays by many authors on the fossil ...
Douglas J. Futuyma. 5. Creationists often claim that the fossil record provides no evidence for the evolution of ... fossil record . Elsevier , Amsterdam . 591 pages . Highly informative , interpretive essays by many authors on the fossil ...
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... fossil record that rapid change is accompanied by speciation , it would be necessary to show that an unchanged ancestral form persists sympat- rically along with a modified descendant . Few if any such examples have been well documented ...
... fossil record that rapid change is accompanied by speciation , it would be necessary to show that an unchanged ancestral form persists sympat- rically along with a modified descendant . Few if any such examples have been well documented ...
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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