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Evolution

Evolution

The First Four Billion Years

by Joseph Travis and Michael Ruse
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/11/2011

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Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, authoritative, and inviting one-volume introduction to evolutionary biology available. Clear, informative, and comprehensive in scope, Evolution opens with a series of major essays dealing with the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology, with major empirical and theoretical questions in the science, from speciation to adaptation, from paleontology to evolutionary development (evo devo), and concluding with essays on the social and political significance of evolutionary biology today.

A second encyclopedic section travels the spectrum of topics in evolution with concise, informative, and accessible entries on individuals from Aristotle and Linneaus to Louis Leakey and Jean Lamarck; from T. H. Huxley and E. O. Wilson to Joseph Felsenstein and Motoo Kimura; and on subjects from altruism and amphibians to evolutionary psychology and Piltdown Man to the Scopes trial and social Darwinism. Readers will find the latest word on the history and philosophy of evolution, the nuances of the science itself, and the intricate interplay among evolutionary study, religion, philosophy, and society.

Appearing at the beginning of the Darwin Year of 2009-the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species-this volume is a fitting tribute to the science Darwin set in motion.
ISBN:
9780674062214
9780674062214
Category:
Evolution
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-11-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
1008
Dimensions (mm):
254x162x57mm
Weight:
1.53kg
Joseph Travis

Joseph Travis is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biological Science at Florida State University and the former editor of American Naturalist. He is coeditor of Evolution: The First Four Billion Years.

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