Article
Ecological aspects of the evolutionary processes.
Zoological science - 1 Mar 2003
Bock Walter J
Abstract excerpt
Darwin in his On the Origin of species made it clear that evolutionary change depends on the combined action of two different causes, the first being the origin of genetically based phenotypic variation in the individual organisms comprising the population and the second being the action of selective agents of the external environment placing demands on the individual organisms. For over a century following...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Ecology
- Environment
- Genotype
- Phenotype
- Reproduction
- Selection, Genetic