Selection: The Mechanism of Evolution - Softcover

Bell, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198569734 ISBN 13: 9780198569732

Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

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Now available in paperback this book adopts a direct experimental approach to evolutionary questions. First published in 1996, this new edition builds upon the strengths of the earlier work but is thoroughly revised to include relevant aspects of modern evolutionary genetics.

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Graham Bell is a professor of biology at McGill University in Montreal. He has published many articles on ecology and evolution, and three books: The Masterpiece of Nature (1982), Sex and Death in Protozoa (1988) and Selection (1996).

Books by the same author:
Selection, second edition, 2007
The Basics of Selection, 1996

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The history and diversity of life on earth are testimony to evolutionary processes that extend back to the dawn of time. The agent of change and diversification is natural selection acting over long periods of time. We might, however, ask how a process so simple can give rise to the intricate and complex organization of living things, and might wonder how a process so long-drawn-out can be studied at all. These questions can be answered by recognizing that selection is a distinctive kind of process whose apparent simplicity can lead to very surprising outcomes. For the first time, this book brings together the work of laboratories throughout the world, showing how experimental evolution provides a solid foundation for our understanding of the living world. Selection: The Mechanism of Evolution offers both organismal and molecular biologists and professionals in a wide range of biological disciplines an exciting single-source reference that provides extensive documentation of the experimental basis of our understanding of selection. This book is also an important reference for university professors and graduate students doing research in evolution, evolutionary and ecological genetics, biology, zoology, botany and genetics.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198569734
• ISBN 13: 9780198569732
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 568
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