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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... highly host - specific , and in this sense are more specialized than most predators , which usually prey on a ... highly obligate , mutualisms are highly species - specific ; for example , leaf - cutter ants ( Atta ) feed exclusively on ...
... highly host - specific , and in this sense are more specialized than most predators , which usually prey on a ... highly obligate , mutualisms are highly species - specific ; for example , leaf - cutter ants ( Atta ) feed exclusively on ...
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... highly variable . At least at the loci that can be studied by electrophoresis , these early estimates of genetic variation were , if anything , underestimates . At some highly variable loci , the enzyme products of several different ...
... highly variable . At least at the loci that can be studied by electrophoresis , these early estimates of genetic variation were , if anything , underestimates . At some highly variable loci , the enzyme products of several different ...
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... highly favorable to divergence by genetic drift , which doubtless accounts for much of the geo- graphic variation of the human species . Surely some geographic variations , how- ever , are a consequence of selection ; for example , the ...
... highly favorable to divergence by genetic drift , which doubtless accounts for much of the geo- graphic variation of the human species . Surely some geographic variations , how- ever , are a consequence of selection ; for example , the ...
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