Evolutionary genetics

Author(s)

• Maynard Smith, John

Bibliographic Information

Evolutionary genetics

John Maynard Smith

Oxford University Press, 1998

2nd ed

• hbk
• pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. [315]-321

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The first edition of Maynard Smith's Evolutionary Genetics (first published in 1989) was welcomed as the first comprehensive introduction to the molecular and population aspects of evolutionary genetics, and has now become one of the definitive textbooks in the field. Aimed at advanced undergraduates in the biological sciences, the book covers basic population and quantitative genetics, evolutionary game theory, behavioural evolution, sexual selection and mating systems, speciation, and macroevolution. Theory and mathematics are clearly explained, with the aid of problems at the ends of the chapters, and the author takes care to place these within the context of questions central to current research in evolutionary biology. This Second Edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect new findings and research interests. In the chapter on phenotypic evolution, the author incorporates new research on game theory. The discussions of sex and host-parasite interactions have been extensively revised and the author has added a new chapter on molecular genetics and the reconstruction of evolutionary history This book is intended for advanced undergraduate students studying cours

Table of Contents

• Evolution by natural selection
• models of populations
• evolution in diploid populations
• the variability of natural populations
• evolution at more than one locus
• quantitative genetics
• a model of phenotypic evolution
• finite and structured populations
• evolution in structured populations
• the evolution of prokaryotes
• the evolution of the eukaryotic genome
• the evolution of genetic systems
• sex and recombination
• the evolution of genetic systems
• some consequences of sex
• macroevolution
• reconstructing evolutionary history.

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Details

• NCID: BA35717016
• ISBN:
  • 019850232X
  • 0198502311
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 330 p., [2] p. of plates
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QH371
  • DC19 : 575.1/5
  • NDC8 : 467
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Evolution
  • LCSH : Genetics
  • LCSH : Population genetics
  • LCSH : Population biology