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Autore |
Avise John C |
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On evolution / / John C. Avise |
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Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (199 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Publisher's Note -- Preface -- 1 Genetic Differentiation during Speciation -- 2 Molecular Variability and Hypothesis Testing: An Ode to Electrophoresis -- 3 The Pocket Gopher -- 4 Gene Trees and Organismal Histories -- 5 Nature's Family Archives -- 6 Molecular Clones within Organismal Clones -- 7 Aging, Sexual Reproduction, and DNA Repair -- 8 The Real Message from Biosphere 2 -- 9 Conservation Genetics and Sea Turtles -- 10 The History and Purview of Phylogeography -- 11 Cladists in Wonderland -- 12 Evolving Genomic Metaphors: A New Look at the Language of DNA -- 13 Genetic Mating Systems and Reproductive Natural Histories of Fishes -- 14 An American Naturalist's Impressions on Australian Biodiversity -- 15 The Best and the Worst of Times for Evolutionary Biology -- 16 Models, Metaphors, and Machines -- 17 Evolution's Unanswered Questions -- Source Articles -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W. |
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From how to define a species to the folly of faulty applications of cladistics to connections between conservation and evolutionary biology, On Evolution takes the reader on a personal journey into the mind of one of the world's leading evolutionists. |
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