1. Ecology Returns to Speciation Studies.
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Morell, Virginia
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SPECIES , *ECOLOGY , *BIOLOGICAL evolution , *CICHLIDS , *BIOLOGICAL adaptation , *EVOLUTIONARY theories - Abstract
Discusses the importance of ecology in the formation of species. How Charles Darwin got his ideas of species; Ecology being neglected in this century's evolutionary science; The ecological speciation model; Attention being given to environmental factors as well as genes; Bursts of speciation as seen in the cichlid fish in Africa's Lake Victoria; Study on marine and stream-dwelling stickleback fish from British Columbia and their genetically distant counterparts in Japan.
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- 1999
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