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Evolution / Mark Ridley

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: 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): 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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Book 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.

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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