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Main Title Populations, species, and evolution; an abridgment of Animal species and evolution.
Author Mayr, Ernst,
Publisher Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
Year Published 1970
OCLC Number 00114063
ISBN 0674690109; 9780674690103; 0674690133; 9780674690134
Subjects Animal species ; Animals--Variation ; Evolution (Biology) ; Population ; Art ; Species Specificity
Additional Subjects Species ; Zoology--Variation ; Evolution
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EKCM  QH371.M33 1970 CEMM/GEMMD Library/Gulf Breeze,FL 01/01/1988
Collation xv, 453 p. illus., maps. 25 cm.
Notes
1963 ed. published under title: Animal species and evolution. Bibliography: p. 427-444.
Contents Notes
Evolutionary biology -- Species concepts and their application -- Morphological species characters and sibling species -- Biological properties of species -- Isolating mechanisms -- The breakdown of isolating mechanisms (Hybridization) -- The population, its variation and genetics -- Factors reducing the genetic variation of populations -- Storage and protection of genetic variation -- The unity of the genotype -- Geographic variation -- The polytypic species of the taxonomist -- The population structure of species -- Kinds of species -- Multiplication of species -- Geographic speciation -- The genetics of speciation -- The ecology of speciation -- Species and transpecific evolution -- Man as a biological species -- Glossary.