The new edition of Evolution: Making Sense of Life is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-books, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.
 
Achieve supports educators and students throughout the full range of instruction, including
assets suitable for pre-class preparation, in-class active learning, and post-class study and
assessment. The pairing of a powerful new platform with outstanding content provides an unrivaled learning experience.
 
 
Achieve introduces exciting new videos that augment the book coverage of topics many students find difficult. These include:

• Seven Whiteboard Videos (mathematical tutorial videos) walk students through the most difficult quantitative reasoning in evolution, including Hardy-Weinberg, mathematical models of drift, quantitative inheritance, and the breeder’s equation—all written and presented by Bronwyn Bleakley, associate professor of biology at Stonehill College and former National Science Foundation international research fellow.
• Animated Concept Tutorial Videos for this edition further explain difficult topics, including reading phylogenetic trees, natural selection and population size, mechanisms of speciation, and genetic drift.

Achieve highlights also include:

• Additional content and assessment to expand on the quantitative side of evolution.
• Automatically graded homework problems with hints, answer-specific feedback, and fully worked solutions so that students don’t get stuck and can learn from their mistakes.
• LearningCurve adaptive quizzing helps students prepare for class and drives them back to the text to reinforce their learning.
• Interactive e-book
• Active learning materials for in-class, online or hybrid classes include: discussion activities, assignments for primary literature, handouts, and other resources to make it even easier to engage your students.
   

Evolution: Making Sense of Life, 3e continues to lead because of it’s stories, pedagogical support and clearly explained quantitative concepts. Highlights include:

Compelling narrative: Throughout Evolution, the authors present stories about evolutionary biologists and how they’ve advanced our understanding of the history of life. We recount how these scientists set out to test hypotheses, how they developed experiments or went in search of fossils, and how they interpreted their results. This is a book designed to be read, rather than just a reference text.

Strong pedagogy designed to help students master the most difficult concepts in evolutionary biology

Fundamental concepts are presented step-by-step and revisited in later chapters to give students opportunities to deepen their understanding

Mathematical coverage is integrated throughout the text in select boxes, allowing instructors to cover as much or as little detail as needed for their course. Quantitative concepts are explained clearly through the narrative, without solely relying on equations as an explanation, which can be intimidating to some students.