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Les enjeux de la biodiversité
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ISBN: 2717834923 9782717834925 Year: 1998 Volume: 10 Publisher: Paris : Economica,


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Précis de génétique des populations : Avec 42 exercices et problèmes corrigés.
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ISBN: 2225830495 9782225830495 Year: 1998 Publisher: Paris : Masson,

Population genetics : a concise guide.
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ISBN: 0801857554 Year: 1998 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins university press

Life : The science of biology.
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ISBN: 0716733250 0716728699 9780716728696 0716733269 9780716733263 0716732742 9780716732747 0716726297 0716732750 9780716732754 9780716733256 9780716726296 Year: 1998 Publisher: Sunderland : Basingstoke : Sinauer Associates ; Freeman,

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The text and CD-ROM shows biology not as a collection of facts, but as a dynamic discipline. The student's understanding of biological processes is developed through pedagogy, using narrative, experimental contexts and art within the scholarship.


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International Beta genetic resources network : A report on the 4th international Beta genetic resources workshop and world Beta network conference held at the Aegean Agricultural Research Institute, Izmir, Turkey, 28 February - 3 March 1996.
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ISBN: 929043368X Year: 1998 Publisher: Rome : IPGRI,

The genetics of the pig
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ISBN: 0851992293 9780851992297 Year: 1998 Publisher: Wallingford : CAB International,

Plant evolution under domestication.
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ISBN: 0412822105 9401059039 940114429X Year: 1998 Publisher: Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers,

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This book emerged from a series of lectures on crop evolution at the Faculty of Agriculture of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. While many textbooks are available on general evolution, only a few deal with evolution under domestication. This book is a modest attempt to bridge this gap. It was written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of crop evolution, ethnobotany, plant breeding and related subjects. Evolution under domestication is unique in the general field of plant evolution for three main reasons: (a) it is recent, having started not much more than 10 000 years ago with the emergence of agri­ culture; (b) the original plant material, i. e. the wild progenitors of many important crop plants, still grow in their natural habitats; (c) man played in this process. These factors enable a more reliable a major role assessment of the impact of different evolutionary forces such as hybridization, migration, selection and drift under new circumstances. Interestingly, a great part of evolution under domestication has been unconscious and a result of agricultural practices which have created a new selection criteria, mostly against characters favored by natural selec­ tion. Introducing crop plants to new territories exposed them to different ecological conditions enhancing selection for new characters. Diversity in characters associated with crop plants evolution is virtually absent in theit wild progenitors and most of it has evolved under domestication.

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