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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... ecological world . Chief among these are the internal relationships among biochemical and developmental pathways , and among different organs , that im- pose selection by requiring that new features be compatible with the rest of the ...
... ecological world . Chief among these are the internal relationships among biochemical and developmental pathways , and among different organs , that im- pose selection by requiring that new features be compatible with the rest of the ...
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Douglas J. Futuyma. This argument implies that empty ecological niches exist . It is a truism among ecologists that ecological niches cannot be identified independently of the species that occupy them , for the number of niches depends ...
Douglas J. Futuyma. This argument implies that empty ecological niches exist . It is a truism among ecologists that ecological niches cannot be identified independently of the species that occupy them , for the number of niches depends ...
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... ecological pro- cesses , therefore , may set a lower limit to the connectance of communities . Ecological theory predicts that specialized ecological relationships between mutualists or between predators and prey should be more ...
... ecological pro- cesses , therefore , may set a lower limit to the connectance of communities . Ecological theory predicts that specialized ecological relationships between mutualists or between predators and prey should be more ...
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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 amino acid ancestor average behavior biological birds bristle cells Chapter characters chromosome coefficient coevolution common competition copies correlated deleterious developmental differentiation distribution divergence Drosophila melanogaster ecological effect environment environmental enzyme equilibrium evidence evolution evolutionary change evolved example factors favor females Figure fitness fossil record function Futuyma gametes gene conversion gene family gene flow gene frequencies genetic drift genetic variation genome genotypes geographic groups heritability heterozygotes heterozygous higher taxa homologous homozygotes homozygous host human hybrid inbreeding increase individual insects interactions Lewontin linkage disequilibrium loci locus males mammals mating mean mechanisms molecular morphological mutation natural selection neoteny nucleotide occur offspring organisms pairs parasites pattern phenotypic phylogenetic phylogeny plants polymorphism population predators prey proteins pseudogenes random recombination related species relative reproductive isolation segments sexual similar speciation structure survival sympatric theory tion traits transposable elements variable variance vertebrates