
- 752 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Evolutionary Biologist, Douglas Emlen and Science Writer, Carl Zimmer continue to improve their widely-praised evolution textbook. Emlen, an award-winning evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, has infused Evolution: Making Sense of Life with the technical rigor and conceptual depth that today's biology majors require. Zimmer, an award-winning New York Times columnist, brings compelling storytelling to the book, bringing evolutionary research to life through a narrative sure to capture the attention of evolution students.
With riveting stories about evolutionary biologists at work everywhere from the Arctic to tropical rainforests to hospital wards, the book is a reading adventure designed to grab the imagination of students, showing them exactly why it is that evolution makes such brilliant sense of life.
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Table of contents
- About this Book
- Chapter 1: The Whale and the Virus
- Chapter 2: From Natural Philosophy to Darwin
- Chapter 3: What the Rocks Say
- Chapter 4: The Tree of Life
- Chapter 5: Raw Material
- Chapter 6: The Ways of Change
- Chapter 7 Beyond Alleles
- Chapter 8 The History in Our Genes
- Chapter 9 From Genes to Traits
- Chapter 10 Natural Selection
- Chapter 11 Sex
- Chapter 12 After Conception
- Chapter 13 The Origin of Species
- Chapter 14 Macroevolution
- Chapter 15 Intimate Partnerships
- Chapter 16 Brains and Behavior
- Chapter 17 Human Evolution
- Chapter 18 Evolutionary Medicine
- Timeline
- Glossary
- Answers to Multiple Choice and Short Answer Questions
- Index
- Back Cover