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Viviparity
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ISBN: 0713125926 0713125934 9780713125924 Year: 1976 Volume: 75 Publisher: London Arnold

Fish physiology.
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ISBN: 0123504333 0123504341 9786611713393 1281713392 0080585345 9786611713386 1281713384 0080585337 9780080585345 9780123504340 9781281713391 6611713395 9780080585338 9780123504333 Year: 1988 Volume: 11 Publisher: New York : Academic Press,

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FROM THE PREFACE: Dramatic changes occur in the physiology of most animals during their development. Among the vertebrates, birds are entirely oviparous, live for variable periods in a cleidoic egg, and show fundamental alterations in excretion, nutrition, and respiration at the time of hatching. In contrast, the eutherian mammals are all viviparous, depend on the maternal circulation and a specialized placenta to provide food, exchange gases, and discharge wastes. The physiology of both mother and fetus is highly specialized during gestation and changes fundamentally at the time of birth. Fi


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Adaptation and Natural Selection : A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
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ISBN: 0691185506 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Biological evolution is a fact-but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful blow against those who argued for the concept of group selection-the idea that evolution acts to select entire species rather than individuals. Williams's famous work in favor of simple Darwinism over group selection has become a classic of science literature, valued for its thorough and convincing argument and its relevance to many fields outside of biology. Now with a new foreword by Richard Dawkins, Adaptation and Natural Selection is an essential text for understanding the nature of scientific debate.

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Adaptation (Biology) --- Natural selection. --- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution. --- Darwinism --- Selection, Natural --- Genetics --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological invasions --- Evolution (Biology) --- Heredity --- Environment --- Biology --- Self-organizing systems --- Biological fitness --- Environmental adaptation --- Adaptation, Environmental --- Adaptation and Natural Selection. --- Adaptation. --- Adaptive radiation. --- Allele. --- Amphibian. --- Analogy. --- Aposematism. --- Autotroph. --- Bacteria. --- Behavior. --- Biologist. --- Biology. --- Bird. --- Charles Darwin. --- Competition. --- Courtship. --- Darwinism. --- Dominance hierarchy. --- Earthworm. --- Ecology. --- Effectiveness. --- Enzyme. --- Eusociality. --- Evolution of sexual reproduction. --- Evolution. --- Evolutionary developmental biology. --- Evolutionary progress. --- Explanation. --- Fecundity. --- Female. --- Fertilisation. --- Fitness (biology). --- Functional organization. --- Gamete. --- Gene pool. --- Gene. --- Genetic diversity. --- Genetic recombination. --- Genotype. --- Germ cell. --- Germ plasm. --- Group selection. --- Heredity. --- Hybrid (biology). --- In Specie. --- Inclusive fitness. --- Indication (medicine). --- Insect. --- Invertebrate. --- Larva. --- Mammal. --- Mammalian reproduction. --- Mating. --- Meiosis. --- Mendelian inheritance. --- Morphogenesis. --- Mortality rate. --- Mutation rate. --- Mutation. --- Niles Eldredge. --- Nutrition. --- Obligate. --- Occam's razor. --- Offspring. --- Organism. --- Parthenogenesis. --- Phenotype. --- Physiology. --- Population density. --- Population genetics. --- Population size. --- Predation. --- Probability. --- Protein. --- Protist. --- Reader (academic rank). --- Reproduction. --- Reproductive success. --- Requirement. --- Selection coefficient. --- Senescence. --- Sex ratio. --- Sex. --- Sexual conflict. --- Sexual reproduction. --- Shoaling and schooling. --- Social animal. --- Student (magazine). --- Suggestion. --- Taxonomy (biology). --- Teleonomy. --- Territory (animal). --- The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. --- Ungulate. --- University of California, Berkeley. --- Vertebrate. --- Viviparity. --- Woodpecker. --- Zygote.

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