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Article: Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation.(Review)
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- Ecology
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- January 1, 1999
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Givnish, Thomas J., and Kenneth J. Sytsma, editors. 1997. Cambridge University Press, New York. xvii + 621 p. $105.00, ISBN: 0-521-57329-7.
An old instructional film on molluscan diversity by Ralph Buchsbaum ends with the congratulatory statement that the Molluscs provide a good example of the principles of adaptive radiation. But what are those principles? And if Darwin was correct about adaptive evolution, don't all branches of the phylogenetic tree of life provide good examples of adaptive evolution? In the first chapter of Molecular evolution and adaptive radiation (MEAR), Givnish outlines alternatives to adaptive radiation (non-adaptive, developmental, ...