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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... probably caused by adaptation to genetic change in an intracellular symbiont that renders hybrids sterile . That some groups consist of many species and others of few does not in itself mean that they differ in the rate at which ...
... probably caused by adaptation to genetic change in an intracellular symbiont that renders hybrids sterile . That some groups consist of many species and others of few does not in itself mean that they differ in the rate at which ...
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... probably served for social display ( Hopson 1975 ) . The quadrupeds included the Jurassic Stegosaurus , famous for its dorsal rows of large triangular plates that were probably thermo- regulatory organs ; the Cretaceous ankylosaurs ...
... probably served for social display ( Hopson 1975 ) . The quadrupeds included the Jurassic Stegosaurus , famous for its dorsal rows of large triangular plates that were probably thermo- regulatory organs ; the Cretaceous ankylosaurs ...
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... probably derived from the Paleocene insectivoran stock . They appeared first in the Eocene , and by the Oligocene had diversified greatly ; some were the size of large pigs . The diversification of the rats and mice of the family ...
... probably derived from the Paleocene insectivoran stock . They appeared first in the Eocene , and by the Oligocene had diversified greatly ; some were the size of large pigs . The diversification of the rats and mice of the family ...
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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