Evolution an introduction

The text is organized into five parts. Part One introduces the basic mechanisms of microevolution: selection, inheritance, and development. Part Two considers how natural selection has designed organisms for reproductive success. Part Three explores macroevolutionary processes such as speciation and...

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Auteur principal: Stearns, Stephen C.
Autres auteurs: Stephen C. Stearns; Rolf F. Hoekstra
Langue:Undetermined
English
Publié: Oxford [England],New York Oxford University Press 2005
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Résumé:The text is organized into five parts. Part One introduces the basic mechanisms of microevolution: selection, inheritance, and development. Part Two considers how natural selection has designed organisms for reproductive success. Part Three explores macroevolutionary processes such as speciation and extinction. Part Four examines key events in evolution throughout the geological record. Part Five discusses coevolution and evolutionary medicine, which integrate and contrast micro- and macroevolution. The book closes with a chapter that recapsulates major issues, discusses unsolved problems, and looks ahead to future developments in this dynamic field
Description matérielle:xx, 575 p.
ill. (some col.), col. maps
25 cm
ISBN:0199255636
978-0199255634