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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Douglas J. Futuyma. FIGURE 4 The South American sideneck turtle Podoc- nemis expansa . A similar species , in the same genus , occurs on the island of Madagascar . ( New York Zoological Society photo ) turtles , the southern beeches ...
Douglas J. Futuyma. FIGURE 4 The South American sideneck turtle Podoc- nemis expansa . A similar species , in the same genus , occurs on the island of Madagascar . ( New York Zoological Society photo ) turtles , the southern beeches ...
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... South 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 ...
... South 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 ...
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... America ; it is in a different genus from the South American porcupines , but it nevertheless clearly has a South American ancestry . On each American continent , then , the mammal fauna includes AU- TOCHTHONOUS groups - those that ...
... America ; it is in a different genus from the South American porcupines , but it nevertheless clearly has a South American ancestry . On each American continent , then , the mammal fauna includes AU- TOCHTHONOUS groups - those that ...
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CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS | 7 |
EVOLUTION SINCE THE SYNTHESIS | 13 |
ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT | 19 |
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