Evolution
 
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ISBN13:9780197619629
ISBN10:0197619622
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:702 pages
Size:228x275x30 mm
Weight:1987 g
Language:English
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Evolution

 
Edition number: 5
Publisher: OUP USA
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Short description:

Addresses major themes: including the history of evolution, evolutionary processes, adaptation, and evolution as an explanatory framework-at levels of biological organization ranging from genomes to ecological communities. Extensively revised for clarity and currency, this new edition of Evolution presents this field of evolution as a living, breathing science. Updated coverage in evolutionary genetics and genomics illustrates the rapidly moving science of evolution and emphasizes the interplay between theory and empirical tests of hypotheses, acquainting students with the process of science. Written for undergraduate students in Psychology and Biology, the text is available in a dynamic and interactive Enhanced eBook that allows student to hone their problem solving and data analysis skills while seeing Evolution in the context of their life through video, animations and more.

Long description:
The gold standard in undergraduate-level evolutionary biology textbooks.

This new fifth edition presents the field of evolution as a living, breathing science. Extensively revised for clarity and currency, Evolution, 5th Edition, includes updated coverage in evolutionary genetics and genomics to illustrate the rapidly moving science of evolution and emphasizes the interplay between theory and empirical test hypotheses, acquainting students with the process of science. Evolution is available in a dynamic interactive enhanced e-book that allows students hone their problem-solving and data analysis skills while seeing the evolution in the context of their life.

Evolution is good at providing a lot of empirical examples for each major concept, and I generally like the organization, particularly in the early units, where chapters build on each other in a good natural progression.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: An Idea that Changed the World
Chapter 2: The Tree of Life
Chapter 3: Natural Selection and Adaptation
Chapter 4: Mutation and Variation
Chapter 5: The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
Chapter 6: Genetic Drift: Evolution at Random
Chapter 7: Quantitative Traits
Chapter 8: Evolution in Space
Chapter 9: Species and Speciation
Chapter 10: The Evolution of Genes and Genomes
Chapter 11: Evolution and Development
Chapter 12: All about Sex
Chapter 13: Cooperation and Conflict
Chapter 14: Evolutionary Ecology: How to be Fit
Chapter 15: Interactions among Species
Chapter 16: Phylogeny: The Unity and Diversity of Life
Chapter 17: The History of Life
Chapter 18: The Geography of Evolution
Chapter 19: Macroevolution: Evolution above the Species Level
Chapter 20: The Evolutionary Story of Homo sapiens
Chapter 21: Evolution and Society
Chapter 22: A Statistics Primer