Evolution

Author(s)

• Ridley, Mark

Bibliographic Information

Evolution

Mark Ridley

Blackwell Scientific, 1993

• : hard
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Advances in evolutionary biology have been made from an array of disciplines - molecular biology, quantitative genetics, population biology, behavioural ecology, phylogenetics, developmental biology and palaeobiology. This book presents an account of evolution, giving insight into the ways in which science progresses. The development of ideas is discussed alongside the studies in which these ideas are tested. Divided into four parts, the book considers microevolution, adaptation, the origins of diversity and macroevolution. Aimed at second- and third-year undergraduate students of evolutionary biology, the text uses statements as headings to reinforces main points.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Introduction: the rise of evolutionary biology
• molecular and menelian genetics
• the evidence for evolution natural selection and variation. Part 2 Evolutionary genetics: the theory of natural selection
• random events in population genetics
• molecular evolution and the neutral theory
• two locus and multi-locus population genetics
• quantitative genetics
• genome evolution. Part 3 Adaptation: the analysis of adaptation
• the units of selection
• adaptive explanation. Part 4 Evolution and diversity: classification and evolution
• the idea of a species
• speciation
• the reconstruction of phylogeny
• evolutionary biogeography. Part 5 Palaeobiology and macroevolution: rates of evolution
• macroevolutionary trends, coevolution, species selection
• extinction and mass extinction
• the fossil record.

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Details

• NCID: BA19818180
• ISBN:
  • 0086542265
  • 0632034815
• LCCN: 92023045
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boston
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 670 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QH366.2
  • DC20 : 575
  • NDC8 : 467.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Evolution (Biology)