The theory of evolution
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The theory of evolution
（Canto）
Cambridge University Press, 1993
Canto ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-347) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
All living plants and animals, including man, are the modified descendants of one or a few simple living things. A hundred years ago Darwin and Wallace in their theory of natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, explained how evolution could have happened in terms of processes known to take place today. In this book John Maynard Smith describes how their theory has been confirmed, but at the same time transformed, by recent research, and in particular by the discovery of the laws of inheritance. This reissue reprints the third edition of John Maynard Smith's classic account, adding a substantial new introduction covering recent developments. A new foreword, by the author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker, commends the book to a fresh generation of readers.
Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the third edition
- Foreword to the Canto edition by Richard Dawkins
- Introduction to the Canto edition
- 1. Adaptation
- 2. The theory of natural selection
- 3. Heredity
- 4. Weismann, Lamarck and the central dogma
- 5. Molecular evolution
- 6. The origin and early evolution of life
- 7. The structure of chromosomes and the control of gene action
- 8. Variation
- 9. Artificial selection: some experiments with fruitflies
- 10. Natural selection in wild populations
- 11. Protein polymorphism
- 12. Altruism, social behaviour and sex
- 13. What are species?
- 14. The origins of species
- 15. What keeps species distinct?
- 16. The genetics of species differences
- 17. The fossil evidence
- 18. Evolution and development
- 19. Evolution and history
- Further reading
- Index.
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