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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Maynard Smith |
| ISBN: | 0521451280 9780521451284 |
| OCLC Number: | 27676642 |
| Description: | xxii 354 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction to the Canto edition -- Adaptation -- Theory of natural selection -- Heredity -- Weismann, Lamarck, and the central dogma -- Molecular evolution -- Origin and early evolution of life -- Structure of chromosomes and the control of gene action -- Variation -- Artificial selection: some experiments with fruitflies -- Natural selection in wild populations -- Protein polymorphism -- Altruism, social behaviour, and sex -- What are species? -- Origins of species -- What keeps species distinct? -- Genetics of species differences -- Fossil evidence -- Evolution and development -- Evolution and history. |
| Series Title: | Canto |
| Responsibility: | John Maynard Smith. |
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This book describes how evolution theory has been confirmed, but at the same time transformed, by recent research.
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'Few people in the world are better qualified than John Maynard Smith to explain evolution to us, and no subject more than evolution deserves such a talented teacher. Like Darwin himself, Maynard Smith knows that his story if intrinsically interesting and important enough to need no more than clear, patient, honest exposition. The new Introduction is an elegant essay which can be recommended in its own right as a summary of important recent developments in evolutionary theory. This book is the best general introduction to the subject now available.' Richard Dawkins, from the Foreword to the Canto edition Read more...
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