Evolution/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge:
Blackwell Science,
1996
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: pt. 1. Introduction
- ch. 1. The rise of evolutionary biology
- ch. 2. Molecular and Mendelian genetics
- ch. 3. The evidence for evolution
- ch. 4. Natural selection and variation
- pt. 2. Evolutionary genetics
- ch. 5. The theory of natural selection
- ch. 6. Random events in population genetics
- ch. 7. Molecular evolution and the neutral theory
- ch. 8. Two-locus and multi-locus population genetics
- ch. 9. Quantitative genetics
- ch. 10. Genome evolution
- pt. 3. Adaptation and natural selection ch. 11. The analysis of adaptation
- ch. 12. The units of selection
- ch. 13. Adaptive explanation
- pt. 4. Evolution and diversity
- ch. 14. Evolution and classification
- ch. 15. The idea of a species
- ch. 16. Speciation
- ch. 17. The reconstruction of phylogeny
- ch. 18. Evolutionary biogeography
- pt. 5. Paleobiology and macroevolution
- ch. 19 The fossil record
- ch. 20. Rates of evolution
- ch. 21. Macroevolutionary change
- ch. 22. Coevolution
- ch. 23. Extinction.