num_pages: 634
description: This expanded and updated second edition offers a comprehensive look at macroevolution and its underpinnings with a primary emphasis on animal evolution. From a Neodarwinian point of view the book integrates evolutionary processes at all levels to explain the diversity of animal life. It examines a wide range of topics including genetics speciation development evolution constructional and functional aspects of form fossil lineages and systematics and --in a major new chapter--takes a hard look at the Cambrian explosion. The author delves into the age of molecular science and integrates important recent contributions made to our understanding of evolution.
language: English
title: Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution
publisher: Cambridge University Press