Evolution

Making Sense of Life

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Publication Date: October 16, 2019

Paperback ISBN: 9781319322199

Pages: 816

Helping students make sense of evolution.

Evolutionary biologist Douglas Emlen and Science writer Carl Zimmer continue to improve their widely-praised evolution textbook. Emlen, an award-winning evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, has infused Evolution: Making Sense of Life with the technical rigor and...

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1. The Whale and the Virus: How Scientists Study Evolution
2. From Natural Philosophy to Darwin: A Brief History of Evolutionary Ideas
3. What the Rocks Say: How Geology and Paleontology Reveal the History of Life
4. The Tree of Life: How Biologists Use Phylogeny to Reconstruct the Deep Past
5. Raw Material: Heritable Variation Among Individuals
6. The Ways of Change: Drift and Selection
7. Beyond Alleles: Quantitative Genetics and the Evolution of Phenotypes
8. The History in Our Genes
9. From Genes to Traits: The Evolution of Genetic Networks and Development
10. Natural Selection: Empirical Studies in the Wild
11. Sex: Causes and Consequences
12. After Conception: The Evolution of Life History and Parental Care
13. The Origin of Species
14. Macroevolution: The Long Run
15. Intimate Partnerships: How Species Adapt to Each Other
16. Brains and Behavior
17. Human Evolution: A New Kind of Ape
18. Evolutionary Medicine

Throughout Evolution: Making Sense of Life, the authors present stories about evolutionary biologists and how they’ve advanced our understanding of the history of life, which offers a compelling narrative. The text recounts how these scientists set out to test hypotheses, how they developed experiments or went in search of fossils, and how they interpreted their results.
The strong pedagogy in this text has been 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.

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Updated scientific research in every chapter.
Rearrangement of the organization of chapters eight, nine and ten so that the discussion of history of genes and adaptation fall immediately after quantitative genetics allowing for a more cohesive story of the science.
Updated coverage and treatment of: early earth, physical linkage, linkage disequilibrium, and inversions maintaining linkage disequilibrium, gene control regions, geological processes that drive variance, macroevolution of individual clades as a way to observe long-term evolutionary trends, flexible behavior in animals with focus on new research on synaptic plasticity, evolving pathogens, and more.

Douglas J. Emlen

Douglas J. Emlen is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House, multiple research awards from the National Science Foundation, including their five-year CAREER award, and a Young Investigator Prize and the E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award from the American Society of Naturalists. His research has been featured in outlets including the New York Times and National Public Radio’s Fresh Air. He is a professor at the University of Montana.

Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer is one of the country’s leading science writers. A columnist for The New York Times and a regular contributor to magazines like Scientific American and National Geographic, he is the author of thirteen books, including Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea and A Planet of Viruses. Zimmer is a lecturer at Yale University, where he teaches science writing. He is a three-time winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award and the winner of the National Academies Communication Award. You can learn more at the authors website: www.carlzimmer.com.

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Animated tutorial videos that further explain topics that students sometimes struggle with, including reading phylogenetic trees, natural selection and population size, mechanisms of speciation, and genetic drift, and White
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