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Evolution / Mark Ridley

By:

Ridley, Mark [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Blackwell Science, [1996]Edition: Second editionDescription: xxi, 719 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0865424950

Subject(s):

Evolution (Biology)

DDC classification:

576.8

Contents:

Part 1. Introduction

The rise of evolutionary biology

Molecular and Mendelian genetics

The evidence for evolution

Natural selection and variation

Part 2. Evolutionary genetics

The theory of natural selection

Random events in population genetics

Molecular evolution and the neutral theory

Two-locus and multi-locus population genetics

Quantitative genetics

Genome evolution

Part 3. Adaptation and natural selection

The analysis of adaptation

The units of selection

Adaptive explanation

Part 4. Evolution and diversity

Evolution and classification

The idea of a species

Speciation

The reconstruction of phylogeny

Evolutionary biogeography

Part 5. Paleobiology and macroevolution

The fossil record

Rates of evolution

Macroevolutionary change

Coevolution

Extinction

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	San Isidro Galas Branch Reference Section	Circulation	C 576.8 R546e 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	127170d

Includes bibliographical references (pages 675-699) and index.