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RECORD NUMBER: 44 OF 73Main Title | Populations, species, and evolution; an abridgment of Animal species and evolution. | |||||||||||
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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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Collation | xv, 453 p. illus., maps. 25 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | 1963 ed. published under title: Animal species and evolution. Bibliography: p. 427-444. |
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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. |