Some additional material has been drawn from earlier chapters to make this essay more self-sufficient. This part 1 of three focuses on currently productive ways to study the evolution of animals living on the extreme frontiers. Part 2 will concentrate on long-term evolutionary trends and their relat
Adaptively relevant environments versus the environment of evolutionary adaptedness
โ Scribed by William Irons
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 232 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1060-1538
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