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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... organisms of a species was not mere imperfection , but the material from which selection could fashion better adapted forms of life . Darwin transformed the Malthusian principle of competition by applying it not only to competition ...
... organisms of a species was not mere imperfection , but the material from which selection could fashion better adapted forms of life . Darwin transformed the Malthusian principle of competition by applying it not only to competition ...
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... organisms : genealogy , whereby the explanation is found in an organ- ism's ancestry , and adaptation , whereby it is found in the organism's conditions of life . In physiology , the word " adaptation " is often used to describe an ...
... organisms : genealogy , whereby the explanation is found in an organ- ism's ancestry , and adaptation , whereby it is found in the organism's conditions of life . In physiology , the word " adaptation " is often used to describe an ...
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... organisms . The adaptation may be illusory To illustrate this principle , consider that it is to a population's long ... organisms ( Williams 1966 ) . For ex- ample , many organisms reduce their reproductive rate as population density ...
... organisms . The adaptation may be illusory To illustrate this principle , consider that it is to a population's long ... organisms ( Williams 1966 ) . For ex- ample , many organisms reduce their reproductive rate as population density ...
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CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS | 7 |
EVOLUTION SINCE THE SYNTHESIS | 13 |
ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT | 19 |
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adaptive advantage allele allele frequency animals appear arise associated average become behavior biological cause cells Chapter characteristics characters chromosome common competition condition conversion copies correlation depends determined developmental differentiation distribution divergence Drosophila ecological effect elements environment enzyme equilibrium evidence evolution evolutionary evolved example exist expression extinction factors Figure fitness fossil frequency function gene genetic genetic drift genome genotypes geographic greater groups growth higher host human hybrid important increase individual insects interactions isolation less linkage loci locus lower major males mating mean mechanisms morphological mutation natural selection occur organisms origin pairs pattern phenotypic plants Pleistocene polymorphism population possible predators Press probability proteins reduced region relationships relative represent reproductive response sequence similar single speciation species structure taxa term theory tion traits variance variation vary