Evolution : making sense of life /: making sense of life. (2018)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Evolution : making sense of life /: making sense of life. (2018)
- Main Title:
- Evolution : making sense of life
- 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
- Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.288447
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