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ISBN:9781319268763
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Take a journey around the world to learn about topics such as natural selection, genetic drift, and sexual selection as The Tangled Bank breaks down the central concepts essential for understanding new advances in evolution. Learn how vital evolution is to all branches of modern biology through a text specifically written for the general reader.
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1. Walking Whales: An Introduction To Evolution
2. Before and After Darwin: A Brief History of Evolutionary Biology
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. Evolution’s Raw Materials
6. The Ways of Change: Drift, and Selection
7. Molecular Evolution: The History in Our Genes
8. Adaptation: The Birth of the New
9. Sex and Family
10. Darwin’s First Question: The Origin of Species
11. Macroevolution: Life Over the Long Run
12. Intimate Partnerships: How Species Adapt to Each Other
13. Minds and Microbes: The Evolution of Behavior
14. A New Kind Of Ape
15. Evolutionary Medicine