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RATES OF EVOLUTION | 3 |
DETERMINANTS OF EVOLUTION | 30 |
MICROEVOLUTION MACROEVOLUTION AND MEGA | 97 |
LOWRATE and High Rate Lines | 125 |
INERTIA TREND AND MOMENTUM | 149 |
ORGANISM AND ENVIRONMENT | 180 |
MODES OF EVOLUTION | 197 |
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adaptive grid adaptive zone ancestral animals appear arise average bradytelic carnivores characters continuous correlated differentiation direction of evolution distinction early ecological environment Eocene Equidae Equus evidence evolving example fact factors favored felids fossil record gene genera genetic genotype groups horotelic horse Hypohippus hypsodonty Hyracotherium inadaptive increase individuals instance involved known large populations length less linear lines machairodontine mammals Merychippus Mesohippus Miocene mode of evolution momentum effect morphological mutation rates natural selection Neohipparion occur Oligocene optimum organism orthogenesis Osborn Paleocene paleontological paleontologists pattern pelecypods perissodactyls phenomena phenotypic phyla phyletic evolution phylogeny phylum Pliocene possible postadaptive preadaptation probably prospective functions quantum evolution random rapid rates of evolution rectilinear evolution relatively selection pressure selective value sense sequence shift skull sort speciation species structure Subzone survival survivorship tachytelic taxonomic Tempo and Mode tend theory tion tive transitional trends Triassic types typical usually variability variation