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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Carl Zimmer; Douglas John Emlen |
| ISBN: | 9781936221172 1936221179 9781936221363 1936221365 |
| OCLC Number: | 767565909 |
| Description: | xxxiii, 680 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The virus and the whale : how scientists study evolution -- 2. Biology : from natural philosophy to Darwin -- 3. What the rocks say : how geology and paleontology reveal the history of life -- 4. The tree of life : how biologists use phylogeny to reconstruct the deep past -- 5. Raw material : heritable variation among individuals -- 6. The ways of change : drift and selection -- 7. Beyond alleles : quantitative genetics and the evolution of phenotypes -- 8. Natural selection : empirical studies in the wild -- 9. The history in our genes -- 10. Adaptations : from genes to traits -- 11. Sex : causes and consquences -- 12. After conception : the evolution of parental care and life histories -- 13. The origin of species -- 14. Macroevolution : the long run -- 15. Intimate partnership : how species adapt to each other -- 16. Minds and microbes : the evolution of behavior -- 17. Human evolution : a new kind of ape -- 18. Evolutionary medicine. |
| Responsibility: | Carl Zimmer, Douglas J. Emlen. |
Abstract:
"Science writer Carl Zimmer and evolutionary biologist Douglas Emlen have teamed up to write a textbook intended for biology majors that will inspire students while delivering a solid foundation in evolutionary biology. Zimmer brings the same story-telling skills he displayed in The Tangled Bank, his 2009 non-majors textbook that the Quarterly Review of Biology called "spectacularly successful." Emlen, an award-winning evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, has infused Evolution: Making Sense of Life with the technical rigor and conceptual depth that today's biology majors require. Students will learn the fundamental concepts of evolutionary theory, such as natural selection, genetic drift, phylogeny, and coevolution. Evolution: Making Sense of Life also drives home the relevance of evolution for disciplines ranging from conservation biology to medicine. With riveting stories about evolutionary biologists at work everywhere from the Arctic to tropical rain forests to hospital wards, the book is a reading adventure designed to grab the imagination of the students, showing them exactly why it is that evolution makes such brilliant sense of life"--
"Students will learn the fundamental concepts of evolutionary theory, such as natural selection, genetic drift, phylogeny, and coevolution. Evolution: Making Sense of Life also drives home the relevance of evolution for disciplines ranging from conservation biology to medicine"--
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