Animal Species and Evolution / / Ernst Mayr.
This masterly and long-awaited work is a full exposition, synthesis, summation, and critical evaluation of the present state of man’s knowledge about the nature of animal species and of the part they play in the processes of evolution. In a series of twenty chapters, Ernst Mayr presents a consecutiv...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1963 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 3rd printing 1966. Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (797 p.) :; 65 line illustrations, 43 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- 1 ~ Evolutionary Biology
- 2 ~ Species Concepts and Their Application
- 3 ~ Morphological Species Characters and Sibling Species
- 4 ~ Biological Properties of Species
- 5 ~ Isolating Mechanisms
- 6 ~ The Breakdown of Isolating Mechanisms (Hybridization)
- 7 ~ The Population, Its Variation and Genetics
- 8 ~ Factors Reducing the Genetic Variation of Populations
- 9 ~ Storage and Protection of Genetic Variation
- 10 ~ The Unity of the Genotype
- 11 ~ Geographic Variation
- 12 ~ The Polytypic Species of the Taxonomist
- 13 ~ The Population Structure of Species
- 14 ~ Kinds of Species
- 15 ~ Multiplication of Species
- 16 ~ Geographic Speciation
- 17 ~ The Genetics of Speciation
- 18 ~ The Ecology of Speciation
- 19 ~ Species and Transpecific Evolution
- 20 ~ Man as a Biological Species
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index