Evolution : making sense of life
著者
書誌事項
Evolution : making sense of life
Roberts and Company Publishers, c2013
- : hard
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全7件
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Science writer Carl Zimmer and evolutionary biologist Douglas Emlen have teamed up to write a textbook intended for biology majors that will inspire students while delivering a solid foundation in evolutionary biology. Zimmer brings the same story-telling skills he displayed in The Tangled Bank, his 2009 non-majors textbook that the Quarterly Review of Biology called "spectacularly successful." Emlen, an award-winning evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, has infused Evolution: Making Sense of Life with the technical rigor and conceptual depth that today's biology majors require. Students will learn the fundamental concepts of evolutionary theory, such as natural selection, genetic drift, phylogeny, and coevolution. Evolution: Making Sense of Life also drives home the relevance of evolution for disciplines ranging from conservation biology to medicine. With riveting stories about evolutionary biologists at work everywhere from the Arctic to tropical rain forests to hospital wards, the book is a reading adventure designed to grab the imagination of the students, showing them exactly why it is that evolution makes such brilliant sense of life.
目次
Chapter 1: The Virus and the Whale: How Scientists Study Evolution Chapter 2: Biology: From Natural Philosophy to Darwin Chapter 3: What the Rocks Say: How Geology and Paleontology Reveal the History of Life Chapter 4: The Tree of Life: How Biologists Use Phylogeny to Reconstruct the Deep Past Chapter 5: Raw Material: Heritable Variation among Individuals Chapter 6: The Ways of Change: Drift, and Selection Chapter 7: Beyond Alleles: Quantitative Genetics and the Evolution of Phenotypes Chapter 8: Natural Selection: Empirical Studies in the Wild Chapter 9: The History in Our Genes Chapter 10: Adaptation: From Genes to Traits Chapter 11: Sex: Causes and Consequences Chapter 12: After Conception: The Evolution of Parental Care and Life Histories Chapter 13: The Origin of Species Chapter 14: Macroevolution: The Long Run (With Kevin Padian, University of California, Berkeley) Chapter 15: Intimate Partnership: How Species Adapt to Each Other Chapter 16: Minds and Microbes: The Evolution of Behavior Chapter 17: Human Evolution: A New Kind of Ape Chapter 18: Evolutionary Medicine
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