The Theory of EvolutionCambridge University Press, 30 июл. 1993 г. - Всего страниц: 354 All living plants and animals, including man, are the modified descendants of one or a few simple living things. A hundred years ago Darwin and Wallace in their theory of natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, explained how evolution could have happened, in terms of processes known to take place today. In this book John Maynard Smith describes how their theory has been confirmed, but at the same time transformed, by recent research, and in particular by the discovery of the laws of inheritance. |
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Adaptation | 26 |
The Theory of Natural Selection | 38 |
Heredity | 53 |
Weismann Lamarck and the Central Dogma | 76 |
Molecular Evolution | 87 |
The Origin and Early Evolution of Life | 109 |
The Structure of Chromosomes and the Control of Gene Action | 122 |
Variation | 133 |
Altruism Social Behaviour and Sex | 193 |
What are Species? | 216 |
The Origins of Species | 231 |
What Keeps Species Distinct? | 245 |
The Genetics of Species Differences | 257 |
The Fossil Evidence | 276 |
Evolution and Development | 310 |
Evolution and History | 327 |
Artificial Selection Some Experiments with Fruitflies | 150 |
Natural Selection in Wild Populations | 165 |
Protein Polymorphism | 184 |
Further Reading | 346 |
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