Evolutionary analysis
By: Scott Freeman, Jon C. Herron
Contributors: Herron, Jon C., 1962-
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 802
ISBN-13: 9780131018594; 9780131442795; 9780131136748
Subjects: Evolution (Biology); Evolution (Biology) -- Research.; Évolution (biologie).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Introduction; title: Ch. 1. A Case for Evolutionary Thinking: Understanding HIV; title: Ch. 2. The Evidence for Evolution; title: Ch. 3. Darwinian Natural Selection; title: Pt. 2. Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change; title: Ch. 4. Mutation and Genetic Variation; title: Ch. 5. Mendelian Genetics in Populations I: Selection and Mutation as Mechanisms of Evolution; title: Ch. 6. Mendelian Genetics in Populations II: Migration, Genetic Drift, and Nonrandom Mating; title: Ch. 7. Evolution at Multiple Loci: Linkage and Sex; title: Ch. 8. Evolution at Multiple Loci: Quantitative Genetics; title: Pt. 3. Adaptation; title: Ch. 9. Studying Adaptation: Evolutionary Analysis of Form and Function; title: Ch. 10. Sexual Selection; title: Ch. 11. Kin Selection and Social Behavior; title: Ch. 12. Aging and Other Life History Characters; title: Ch. 13. Evolution and Human Health; title: Pt. 4. The History of Life; title: Ch. 14. Reconstructing Evolutionary Trees; title: Ch. 15. Mechanisms of Speciation; title: Ch. 16. The Origins of Life and Precambrian Evolution.; title: Ch. 17. The Cambrian Explosion and Beyond; title: Ch. 18. Development and Evolution; title: Ch. 19. Human Evolution.