The Explanation of Organic Diversity: The Comparative Method and Adaptations for Mating

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Clarendon Press, 1983 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 272 pages
This book charts the development of a rigorous comparative method of studying species adaptation. "If Ridley's monograph is able to persuade comparative biologists to abandon counting species as though they represented independent evolutionary events, it will have done noble work."--Nature

Contents

The explanation of organic diversity
3
Introduction
47
On being the right sized mates
170
References
223
Index
263
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Bibliographic information

TitleThe Explanation of Organic Diversity: The Comparative Method and Adaptations for Mating
Oxford science publications
AuthorMark Ridley
Editionillustrated
PublisherClarendon Press, 1983
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized13 Jul 2009
ISBN0198575971, 9780198575979
Length272 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Medical / Physiology
Science / Chemistry / Organic
Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General
  
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