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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... America and southern South America . Another common disjunct pattern is that of an eastern Asia - eastern North America distribution , as exemplified by alligators ( Alligator sinensis and A. mississippiensis ) , skunk cabbage ...
... America and southern South America . Another common disjunct pattern is that of an eastern Asia - eastern North America distribution , as exemplified by alligators ( Alligator sinensis and A. mississippiensis ) , skunk cabbage ...
Pagina 382
... America and Australia ; early Tertiary marsupial fossils have been found in Antarctica , which was still joined to South America and Australia in the late Cretaceous . The turtle genus Podocnemis was distributed over South America ...
... America and Australia ; early Tertiary marsupial fossils have been found in Antarctica , which was still joined to South America and Australia in the late Cretaceous . The turtle genus Podocnemis was distributed over South America ...
Pagina 385
... America ; it is in a different genus from the South American porcupines , but it nevertheless clearly has a South ... America . The sister groups of New Zealand midges are not localized in Australia , but occur in both South America and ...
... America ; it is in a different genus from the South American porcupines , but it nevertheless clearly has a South ... America . The sister groups of New Zealand midges are not localized in Australia , but occur in both South America and ...
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CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS | 7 |
EVOLUTION SINCE THE SYNTHESIS | 13 |
ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT | 19 |
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