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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... traits will not persist unless the loci are very tightly linked or selection strongly favors a correlation between the traits ( Lande 1980 ) . In a population that is at equilibrium under stabilizing selection , therefore , genetic ...
... traits will not persist unless the loci are very tightly linked or selection strongly favors a correlation between the traits ( Lande 1980 ) . In a population that is at equilibrium under stabilizing selection , therefore , genetic ...
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... traits including fitness , reduce the response to selection , and cause the character to return toward its original state if selection is relaxed . These factors may help to account for the persistence of polygenic variation even in the ...
... traits including fitness , reduce the response to selection , and cause the character to return toward its original state if selection is relaxed . These factors may help to account for the persistence of polygenic variation even in the ...
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... traits ? For the vast majority of personality traits , little evidence bears on the issue one way or the other . The problem is that even if a trait " runs in families , " the variation can as well be attributable to environment as to ...
... traits ? For the vast majority of personality traits , little evidence bears on the issue one way or the other . The problem is that even if a trait " runs in families , " the variation can as well be attributable to environment as to ...
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