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Environmental biology : the conditions of life : environmental selection, extinction, creation, adaptation and overpopulation /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hilleman, Terry
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Enfield, NH : Science Publishers, c2009.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview
  • Retrospective
  • Beyond ancient history
  • The atmosphere
  • Milankovitch cycle(s)
  • Climate
  • Major environmental extinction events
  • Extinction events initiate change
  • Chicken little was right
  • Fire down below
  • Constant extinction
  • Ecological succession
  • Extinction event significance
  • Environmental extinction and environmental creation
  • Environmental creation significance
  • The rest of the story
  • Environmentally and genetically determined evolution
  • Alone
  • Genetic perspective
  • Genotype and phenotype
  • Alleles
  • Mutation
  • Phenotype and environment
  • Genetic constraint
  • Genetic variation
  • Environmental adaptation
  • A foundation of modern evolutionary biology
  • Difficulties on theory
  • Environmentally-determined evolution?
  • Macroevolution and microevolution
  • Philosophy of genetic mechanisms
  • Biochemistry of genetic mechanisms
  • Primary production
  • Respiration
  • Ecosystem energy flow
  • Common ground
  • Biodiversity
  • Habitat diversity
  • Overpopulation
  • Humanity
  • Do the math
  • The ongoing losses
  • A choice
  • Epilogue
  • Environment and evolution questions
  • Human population and resource questions.