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736 Index<br />

coloration (cont.):<br />

prezygotic isolation 357–9, Plate 7<br />

species definition 348–9, 350<br />

warning 128–9<br />

common ancestor 44, 164, 166<br />

classification of species 473<br />

Darwin’s finches 596<br />

derived homologies 431–2<br />

humans and chimpanzees 483<br />

paraphyletic groups 487<br />

passive inheritance 446<br />

rooted phylogenetic tree 439–40<br />

competition 74, 516<br />

intraspecific 489<br />

local resource 340–1<br />

pollen 356–7<br />

speciation 353<br />

sperm 356–7<br />

virulence 627<br />

competitive displacement 645, 669–71<br />

competitive exclusion 353<br />

competitive replacement in Bryozoa 670–1<br />

competitors<br />

extinction 644<br />

replacement 645, 669–71<br />

congruence 509–10<br />

continental drift see plate tectonic movements<br />

convergence 186–7, 436, 683<br />

classification 473–4, 481<br />

functional 438<br />

natural selection 430<br />

see also carnivores, saber-toothed<br />

cooption, molecular 265<br />

cophylogenies 618–19<br />

parasites and hosts 630–2<br />

primates with lentiviruses 631–2<br />

corn (maize), oil content 238–9<br />

corridors 497<br />

Corvus (crow), hybrid zones 409–10, 411<br />

cosmological time 68<br />

cosmopolitan species 493<br />

cospeciation 631, 632<br />

courtship 355<br />

covariance (statistical) 233, 234, 235<br />

crabs 430<br />

see also Limulus (horseshoe crab)<br />

cranial nerves 281<br />

homologies 60–1<br />

creationism 44–5, 52, 64, 363–4<br />

definition 688<br />

intelligent design 67n<br />

scientific 67–8<br />

Cretaceous era<br />

angiosperm proliferation 540<br />

mass extinction 649, 650<br />

Cretaceous–Tertiary (KT) boundary mass<br />

extinction 651–3, 656, 666–7<br />

ecologically specialist species 668<br />

mammal replacement of dinosaurs 671–2<br />

Crick, Francis 22<br />

cricket 562<br />

Cro-Magnon man 550<br />

crocodiles<br />

ancestral homologies 432<br />

classification 476<br />

phylogenetic relations 482<br />

Croizat, Léon 510<br />

crow see Corvus (crow)<br />

Crustacea 430, 473, 474<br />

adaptive radiation in Lake Baikal 644<br />

crystallins 265<br />

Culex quinquifasciatus (mosquito) 117<br />

Cuvier, Georges 8, 11, 59, 646<br />

Cyanobacteria 607–8<br />

Cyclostomata bryozoans 670–1<br />

cynodonts 545<br />

Cyprinodon (desert pupfish) 499<br />

Cypripedium acaule (pink lady’s slipper<br />

orchid) 86<br />

Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni (stalk-eyed fly) 280,<br />

Plate 5<br />

cytochrome c 438<br />

phylogenetic tree 62<br />

cytosine (C) 25<br />

Darwin, Charles 9–10<br />

adaptation 6, 256<br />

competition 74<br />

divergence of species 487–8, 503, 645–6<br />

evolution 1, 4–5, 7, 12, 39<br />

direction 88<br />

extinction rates 658<br />

gradualism 259–60, 266, 600, 601<br />

evidence for 602–6<br />

Ordovician trilobites 605<br />

natural selection 41<br />

reception of ideas 10–14<br />

sexual dimorphism 329<br />

species relatedness in geographic area<br />

504<br />

see also Geospiza (Galápagos finches)<br />

Darwin, Erasmus 7<br />

“darwin” (unit) 591<br />

Dawkins, R. 307<br />

definition of gene 309<br />

units of selection 307–10<br />

DDT resistance 115–18<br />

dental caries in rats 47, 48<br />

deoxyribonucleic acid see DNA<br />

descendant species, island archipelagos 503<br />

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to<br />

Sex (Darwin) 329<br />

detoxifying mechanisms 616, 617, 619<br />

Deuterostoma 536, 580, 582<br />

development 573–87<br />

changes 573<br />

genes controlling 573, 579–80<br />

modes of 296, 297<br />

developmental asymmetry 276<br />

developmental canalization 276, 600n<br />

developmental constraints 275–80<br />

allometry 280<br />

Devonian era 540<br />

extinctions 648–9<br />

diatoms 64<br />

dicotyledons 560<br />

Diderot, Denis 7<br />

Dietl, G.P. 634–5<br />

differential selection 237, 238, 240, 241–2, 248<br />

Dimetrodon (pelycosaur) 544<br />

dinosaurs<br />

extinction 669<br />

independent replacement by mammals<br />

671–4<br />

mass extinction 650<br />

non-avian 264<br />

diploidy 33–4, 683<br />

haploid gametes 101<br />

Dipnoi see lungfish<br />

directional selection 76, 77, 78, 237, 238, 241<br />

definition 683<br />

dispersal 496–7, 512<br />

events 505, 507<br />

Great American Interchange 512–17<br />

methods 497<br />

waif 513<br />

Wynne-Edwards’ theory of animal<br />

dispersion 301, 302<br />

distal-less (Dll) gene 585<br />

distance measures 476–9<br />

divergence principle 455, 456, 487–9, 503<br />

adaptive radiation 645–6<br />

Darwin’s finches 596<br />

diversification, coevolution 622–3<br />

diversity<br />

bias correction 676<br />

exponential model 675–6<br />

logistic model 674–5<br />

population genetic theory 149<br />

reduction of genetic 210–12, 213<br />

species 674–6<br />

DNA 22–3, 684<br />

Alu sequence 567, 568<br />

chimpanzee 578<br />

copying 174<br />

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