Helping students make sense of evolution
Evolutionary Biologist, Douglas Emlen and Science Writer, Carl Zimmer continue to improve their widely-praised evolution textbook. Emlen, an award-winning evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, has infused Evolution: Making Sense of Life with the technical rigour and conceptual depth that today s biology majors require. Zimmer, an award-winning New York Times columnist, brings compelling storytelling to the book, bringing evolutionary research to life through a narrative sure to capture the attention of evolution students.
The new edition of Evolution: Making Sense of Life is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-books, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1.- The Whale and the Virus: How Scientists Study Evolution.- 2 From Natural Philosophy to Darwin: A Brief History of Evolutionary Ideas.- 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 Raw Material: Heritable Variation Among Individuals.6 The Ways of Change: Drift and Selection.- 7 Beyond Alleles: Quantitative Genetics and the Evolution of Phenotypes.- 8 The History in Our Genes.- 9 From Genes to Traits: The Evolution of Genetic Networks and Development.- 10 Natural Selection: Empirical Studies in the Wild.- 11 Sex: Causes and Consequences.- 12 After Conception: The Evolution of Life History and Parental Care.- 13 The Origin of Species.- 14 Macroevolution: The Long Run.- 15 Intimate Partnerships: How Species Adapt to Each Other.-16 Brains and Behavior.- 17 Human Evolution: A New Kind of Ape.- 18 Evolutionary Medicine.
