Selection: The Mechanism of Evolution / Edition 1

by Graham Bell

Overview

This book adopts a direct experimental approach to evolutionary questions, drawing predominantly from research on microbial systems. The focus is on processes and mechanisms, incorporating insights from remarkable recent advances in whole-genome sequencing, bioinformatics, environmental genomics, and developmental genetics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780412055218
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	10/31/1996
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	699
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Graham Bell is a professor of biology at McGill University in Montreal. He has published many articles on ecology and evolution, and three books: the Masterpiece of Nature (1982), Sex and Death in Protozoa (1988) and Selection (1996).

Table of Contents

1. Simple Selection.- 2. Selection on a Single Character.- 3. Selection on Several Characters.- 4. Autoselection.- 5. Social Selection.- 6. Sexual Selection.

Editorial Reviews

...readers will expect and find erudition, breadth, unusual diversity of examples and good writing in latest works...this book is explicity about selection. What makes this book useful is its singleness of purpose toegether with the great breadth of coverage of the chosen subject. - Nature, Vol. 384, Dec., 1996; I recommend the book to anyone interested in almost any aspect of natural selection and its importance in evolution. - Science, August 1997

From the Publisher

Framing his arguments in terms of asexual, haploid microbes, Bell (genetics, McGill U.) explores this facet of biological inheritance. Types of selection studied include simple, single and multi-character, auto, social, and sexual. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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