Evolution : making sense of life /: making sense of life. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carl Zimmer, Douglas J. Emlen.
• Other Names: Zimmer, Carl, 1966-; Emlen, Douglas John, 1967-
• Contents: 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. Natural Selection: Empirical Studies in the Wild -- 9. The History in Our Genes -- 10. Adaptation: From Genes to Traits -- 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 Partnership: How Species Adapt to Each Other -- 16. Minds and Microbes: The Evolution of Behavior -- 17. Human Evolution: A New Kind of Ape -- 18. Evolutionary Medicine.
• Publisher Details: New York : Roberts
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (752 pages)
• Subjects: 576.8/2; Life sciences; Evolution (Biology); Evolution (Biology); Science -- Life Sciences -- Evolution; Evolution
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781319202590
• Related ISBNs: 9781936221554
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