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Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree : Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles /
Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single most important source of biological diversity in the living world. One of the best-studied examples involves Caribbean Anolis...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by Harry W. Greene
- Prologue : the case for Anolis
- Evolutionary biology as a historical science
- Meet the anoles!
- Five anole faunas, part one : greater Antillean ecomorphs
- Five anole faunas, part two : the other four
- Phylogenetics, evolutionary inference, and anole relationships
- Phylogenetic perspective on the timing and biogeography of anole evolution
- Evolution of ecomorphological diversity
- Cradle to grave : anole life history and population biology
- Social behavior, sexual selection, and sexual dimorphism
- Habitat use
- Ecology and adaptive radiation
- Natural selection and microevolution
- Form, function, and adaptive radiation
- Speciation and geographic differentiation
- The evolution of an adaptive radiation
- The five faunas reconsidered
- Are anoles special, if so, why?
- Afterword.