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Index 



Community evolution, 209 



processes of, 220 

 Community relationships, 210 



evolution of, 212 

 Competition, 147, 213, 283 



direct, 213, 225, 250, 283 



indirect, 215, 220 



unrealized, 225 

 Competitive balance, 213, 215 

 Competitive interference, 216 

 Complex communities, evolution of, 



218 

 Compositae, chromosomes, 62 

 Conger eels, 171 

 Congregation of biomes, 296 

 Congregation of species, 211, 335 

 Coniferous forests, 231, 255 



boreal, 259 



northern, 299 

 Continental areas, 19 

 Continental drift, 20, 25, 302 

 Continental reinvasion, 169 

 Continental shields, 20 

 Continental systems, 302 

 Continental uplift, 328 

 Continents, relative positions, 301 

 Convection currents, 23 

 Convection hypothesis, 24 

 Convergent evolution, 323 

 Core of earth, 18 

 Corn leaf aphid, 154 

 Correns, 3 



Courtship patterns, 162 

 Crepis, chromosomal reduction in, 77, 



157 

 Cretaceous, 25, 57, 140, 261, 271, 



286, 290 

 Crickets, 119 

 Crinia, 165, 167 

 Crossing-over, 81 



unequal, 80 

 Crotophaga sulcirostris siilcirostris, 



170 

 Crust of earth, 19 



dynamics of, 327 

 Crustal changes, 20 



Crustal deformation, 328 



Crustal movements, effect on climates, 



333 

 Crustal vvarpings, 329 

 Crystalline organization, 48 

 Ciilex, 90 



Culex pipiens, 89, 196 

 Culicoides, 203 

 Cuvier, 2 

 Cycadales, 325 

 Cyclops vernalis, 118 

 Cynips, 312 

 Cysteine, 68 

 Cytoplasm, 30, 33, 54 

 Cytoplasmic allele, 70 

 Cytoplasmic gene, 70 

 Cytoplasmic inheritance, 62, 70, 82 

 Cytoplasmic mutation, 81 

 Cytoplasmic segregation, 82 

 Cytoplasmic sterility factors, 196 

 Cytosine, 39 



D 



Dacrydiiim taxoides, 218 

 Danthonia, 314 

 Darwin, Charles, 3 

 Darwin, Erasmus, 2 

 Darwin finches, 221 

 Deciduous forest, 255 

 Deinocerites, 192 

 Deme, 112, 113, 124 

 Dendrocopus, 193 

 Desert biomes, 286, 323 

 Desoxyribonucleic acid, 38 

 Determinism, 343 

 Deuterium, 13 

 Devonian, 57, 257, 263 

 De Vries, 3 



Dicanthiiim annidatum, 240 

 Dichromena ciliata, 235 

 Didelphis virginicus, 108 

 D'uhis inepfus, 239 

 Diffusion, 33 

 Diploid cell, 55 

 Dipnoian fishes, 142, 152 



