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... organisms have more than we do ; tarsiers , for example , have 80. In all higher organisms , however , the chemical code of the nucleotides is the same ; only the message is different . Heredity The basic laws of heredity were worked ...
... organisms have more than we do ; tarsiers , for example , have 80. In all higher organisms , however , the chemical code of the nucleotides is the same ; only the message is different . Heredity The basic laws of heredity were worked ...
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... organisms become more difficult to obtain . If each organism not only survives its first reproductive episode but ... organisms . In detail , however , the kinds of innova- tions that produce relative increments in reproductive success ...
... organisms become more difficult to obtain . If each organism not only survives its first reproductive episode but ... organisms . In detail , however , the kinds of innova- tions that produce relative increments in reproductive success ...
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... organisms in their social group relative to the rate achieved by more cooperative populations of the same species . Adaptation and General Evolution Because natural selection governs the direction of bioevolution , each transformed organism ...
... organisms in their social group relative to the rate achieved by more cooperative populations of the same species . Adaptation and General Evolution Because natural selection governs the direction of bioevolution , each transformed organism ...
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Biological Evolution | 7 |
FIGURES 11 Anthropologists at Work 289 | 8 |
Population Genetics | 13 |
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