How and Why Species Multiply : The Radiation of Darwin's Finches /

Charles Darwin's experiences in the Galápagos Islands in 1835 helped to guide his thoughts toward a revolutionary theory: that species were not fixed but diversified from their ancestors over many generations, and that the driving mechanism of evolutionary change was natural selection. In this...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Grant, Peter R. (Autor), Grant, B. Rosemary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology Ser.
Temas:
Finches > Evolution > Galapagos Islands.
Finches > Adaptation > Galapagos Islands.
Adaptation, adaptive.
Alleles.
Allopatry (geographical isolation).
Arthropods.
Camarhynchus, tree finches.
Certhidea olivacea, warbler finch.
Class, taxonomic.
Coexistence.
Diet of finches: arthropods.
Diversity.
Environmental conditions, opportunities.
Extinction.
Feeding behavior.
Fitness: of hybrids.
Geospiza fortis, medium ground finch.
Human activities.
Hybridization.
Immigration.
Key traits.
Lack, David.
Molecular genetics.
Natural selection.
Platyspiza crassirostris, vegetarian finch.
Reinforcement.
Variation: genetic.
selection on.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.
Finches > Evolution
Galapagos Islands
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Biodiversity Problem and Darwin's Finches
  • CHAPTER TWO .Origins and History
  • CHAPTER THREE. Modes of Speciation
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Colonization of an Island
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Natural Selection, Adaptation, and Evolution
  • CHAPTER SIX. Ecological Interactions
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Reproductive Isolation
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Hybridization
  • CHAPTER NINE. Species and Speciation
  • CHAPTER TEN. Reconstructing the Radiation of Darwin's Finches
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Facilitators of Adaptive Radiation
  • CHAPTER TWELVE. The Life History of Adaptive Radiations
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Summary of the Darwin's Finch Radiation
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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