Evolution

Making Sense of Life

Third Edition

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

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