
Evolution
Oxford University Press Inc
4th Edition
Published on 17. April 2017
Book
Hardback
594 pages
978-1-60535-605-1 (ISBN)
Description
This new edition of Evolution features a new coauthor: Mark Kirkpatrick (The University of Texas at Austin) offers additional expertise in evolutionary genetics and genomics, the fastest-developing area of evolutionary biology. Directed toward an undergraduate audience, the text emphasizes the interplay between theory and empirical tests of hypotheses, thus acquainting students with the process of science.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is masterfully reimagined and expertly written. The all-new illustrations provide a visual understanding of evolutionary processes while making the reading experience aesthetically pleasing. Overall, this comprehensive volume provides a superb introduction to the study of evolution." --Carolyn Norin, The Quarterly Review of BiologyMore details
Product info
Book
Edition
4th ed. 2017
Language
English
Place of publication
Sunderland
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
594 p.
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
ISBN-13
978-1-60535-605-1 (9781605356051)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Douglas Futuyma
Evolution
Book
07/2013
3rd Edition
Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S.
€74.89
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Persons
Douglas J. Futuyma is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his B.S. from Cornell University and his Ph. D. in Zoology at the University of Michigan with Lawrence Slobodkin. Dr. Futuyma is the author of three previous editions of Evolution, as well as three editions of its predecessor, Evolutionary Biology. He received the 1997 Sewall Wright Award of the American Society of Naturalists and the 2012 Joseph Leidy Award of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (Philadelphia). Dr. Futuyma has served as President of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the American Society of Naturalists, and the American Institute of Biological Sciences, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. He has served as Editor of Evolution and is currently Editor of the Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. In 2013, he was recognized as Honorary Doctor by the National University of Mongolia. An avid naturalist, his major research interests include evolution of interactions among insects and plants, speciation, and evolution of community structure.
Mark Kirkpatrick is the Painter Centennial Professor of Genetics in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.A. in Biology from Harvard in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Washington with Monty Slatkin in 1983. Dr. Kirkpatrick has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1997) and a Poste Rouge Fellowship (France, 1997). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008), and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2016). Dr. Kirkpatrick received the Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists (2014). He has served as Associate Editor of The American Naturalist, Theoretical Population Biology, and Genetics, and on the Editorial Board of The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics and of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. Dr. Kirkpatrick's research interests are in evolutionary genetics. He has worked on sexual selection, quantitative genetics, speciation, and species ranges. Current research topics include the evolution of sex determination and chromosome rearrangements.
Mark Kirkpatrick is the Painter Centennial Professor of Genetics in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.A. in Biology from Harvard in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Washington with Monty Slatkin in 1983. Dr. Kirkpatrick has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1997) and a Poste Rouge Fellowship (France, 1997). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008), and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2016). Dr. Kirkpatrick received the Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists (2014). He has served as Associate Editor of The American Naturalist, Theoretical Population Biology, and Genetics, and on the Editorial Board of The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics and of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. Dr. Kirkpatrick's research interests are in evolutionary genetics. He has worked on sexual selection, quantitative genetics, speciation, and species ranges. Current research topics include the evolution of sex determination and chromosome rearrangements.
Content
Chapter 1: Evolutionary Biology.- Chapter 2: The Tree of Life.- Chapter 3: Natural Selection and Adaptation.- Chapter 4: Mutation and Variation.- Chapter 5: The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection.- Chapter 6: Phenotypic Evolution.- Chapter 7: Genetic Drift: Evolution at Random.- Chapter 8: Evolution in Space.- Chapter 9: Species and Speciation.- Chapter 10: All About Sex.- Chapter 11: How to Be Fit.- Chapter 12: Conflict and Cooperation.- Chapter 13: Interactions among Species.- Chapter 14: The Evolution of Genes and Genomes.- Chapter 15: Evolution and Development.- Chapter 16: Phylogeny: Unity and Diversity.- Chapter 17: The History of Life.- Chapter 18: The Geography of Evolution.- Chapter 19: The Evolution of Biological Diversity.- Chapter 20: Macroevolution: Evolution above the Species Level.- Chapter 21: The Evolutionary Story of Homo sapiens.- Chapter 22: Evolution and Society