Evolution
`Review from previous edition I felt I must write and congratulate you and thank you for the excellent text-book you and your co-author......have written. I am full of admiration of your skill in writing briefly and succinctly and yet cover so much ground and making it clear that in many cases things are not all that straightforward. As has been said, any fool can write a thick book but it takes talent to write a short one. I am convinced your book will be widely used and make splendid service in many years to come.' Staffan Ulfstrand at Uppsala.`..a nice, slim, inexpensive, up-to-date, user-friendly textbook pitched at exactly the right level...Stearns and Hoekstra excel both on presentation and content. The uncluttered pages and numerous sub-headings are inviting...The questions at the end of each chapter are thought provoking...the best undergraduate evolution textbook available.' George F Turner, Head of Biochemistry, University of Southampton/The Times Higher Education Supplement, February 2000