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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... individual consumes a resource and makes it unavailable to others ; the competing individuals may never actually meet . Com- petition by INTERFERENCE occurs when two individuals directly interact , and one loses the encounter . They may ...
... individual consumes a resource and makes it unavailable to others ; the competing individuals may never actually meet . Com- petition by INTERFERENCE occurs when two individuals directly interact , and one loses the encounter . They may ...
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... individuals in the same population . By this mechanism , a trait cannot increase in frequency if it is harmful to the individual yet good for the population or species . Thus pure altruism , such as responding to excessive population ...
... individuals in the same population . By this mechanism , a trait cannot increase in frequency if it is harmful to the individual yet good for the population or species . Thus pure altruism , such as responding to excessive population ...
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... individual will do in any situation in which it may find itself . " A strategy may be pure , meaning that the individual always has the same phenotype , or it may be mixed , meaning that the phenotype of the individ- ual varies , as is ...
... individual will do in any situation in which it may find itself . " A strategy may be pure , meaning that the individual always has the same phenotype , or it may be mixed , meaning that the phenotype of the individ- ual varies , as is ...
Sommario
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