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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... Pleistocene ( Stanley 1979 ) . Species of pup- fish ( Cyprinodon ) have developed in the Death Valley region since the extensive lakes that existed there in the Pleistocene became reduced to isolated springs 20,000-30,000 years ago ...
... Pleistocene ( Stanley 1979 ) . Species of pup- fish ( Cyprinodon ) have developed in the Death Valley region since the extensive lakes that existed there in the Pleistocene became reduced to isolated springs 20,000-30,000 years ago ...
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... Pleistocene , and that not many species became extinct during the Pleistocene anyway . However , the Pleistocene glaciations are not the only important historical event . Not until the late Oligocene did the present pronounced ...
... Pleistocene , and that not many species became extinct during the Pleistocene anyway . However , the Pleistocene glaciations are not the only important historical event . Not until the late Oligocene did the present pronounced ...
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... Pleistocene of Zambia , about 110,000 years old ) . ( F ) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis ( specimen from upper Pleistocene of Morocco , very approx- imately 47,000 years old ) . ( From Howell 1978 ) From about 0.2 Myr on , hominid ...
... Pleistocene of Zambia , about 110,000 years old ) . ( F ) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis ( specimen from upper Pleistocene of Morocco , very approx- imately 47,000 years old ) . ( From Howell 1978 ) From about 0.2 Myr on , hominid ...
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CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS | 7 |
EVOLUTION SINCE THE SYNTHESIS | 13 |
ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT | 19 |
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