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Evolution

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Third  Edition©2020  Douglas Emlen; Carl Zimmer

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Evolutionary research comes alive through riveting stories about evolutionary biologists at work everywhere, from the Arctic to tropical rainforests to hospital wards. Evolution teaches you the fundamental concepts of evolutionary theory, such as natural selection, genetic drift, phylogeny, and coevolution while driving home the relevance of evolution for disciplines ranging from conservation biology to medicine.

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Table of Contents

1  The Whale and the Virus: How Scientists Study Evolution 1
2  From Natural Philosophy to Darwin: A Brief History of Evolutionary Ideas 28
3  What the Rocks Say: How Geology and Paleontology Reveal the History of Life 52
4  The Tree of Life: How Biologists Use Phylogeny to Reconstruct the Deep Past
5  Raw Material: Heritable Variation Among Individuals 140
6  The Ways of Change: Drift and Selection 176
7  Beyond Alleles: Quantitative Genetics and the Evolution of Phenotypes 226
8  The History in Our Genes 264
9  From Genes to Traits: The Evolution of Genetic Networks and Development 308
10  Natural Selection: Empirical Studies in the Wild 352
11  Sex: Causes and Consequences 390
12  After Conception: The Evolution of Life History and Parental Care 434
13  The Origin of Species 466
14  Macroevolution: The Long Run 508
15  Intimate Partnerships: How Species Adapt to Each Other 548
16  Brains and Behavior 588
17  Human Evolution: A New Kind of Ape 632
18  Evolutionary Medicine 684

Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer is one of the country’s leading science writers. A colum- nist for the New York Times, he is the author of 15 books, including She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Poten- tials of Heredity, which The Guardian named the best science book of 2018. Zimmer is professor adjunct at Yale University, where he teaches science writing. Among his many honors, Zimmer has won the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the National Association of Biology Teachers Distinguished Service Award.

Douglas Emlen

Douglas J. Emlen is a professor at the University of Montana. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the U.S. Pres- idential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. In 2014 he was awarded UM’s Distinguished Teaching Award and in 2015 the Carnegie/CASE Professor of the Year Award for the state of Montana. His 2014 book Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, and he recently starred in documenta- ries about his work on BBC (Nature’s Wildest Weapons) and NOVA (Extreme Animal Weapons).