The Evolution of Life

by Graham Bell

Overview

The Evolution of Life is unique in its focus on key principles, offering an accessible, unintimidating treatment of evolutionary biology. With adaptation through natural selection — how the integrated complexity of living organisms comes about — as its central theme, the text adopts a lucid narrative to explain the mechanism of evolution and its main outcomes.

Chapters are grouped into six themed parts — basics, history, origins, adaptation, selection, and interaction — and the text is regularly interspersed with descriptive headings that set out a clear path through the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198712572
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/11/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Graham Bell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology at McGill University, where his research explores genetic variation and species diversity in environments that vary in space and time. Having published over 120 research papers, he is also the author of Selection: The Mechanism of Evolution, Second Edition (OUP 2007).

Table of Contents

Section 1: Basics1. The Evidence for Evolution2. The Engine of EvolutionSection 2: History3. The Tree of Life4. The Diversity of Life5. The Ancestry of LifeSection 3: Origins6. The Origin of Variation7. The Origin of Species8. The Origin of InnovationSection 4: Adaptation9. Adaptation and Evolved Design10. Evolving Bodies11. The Dynamic GenomeSection 5: Selection12. Artificial Selection13. Experimental Evolution14. Selection in Natural PopulationsSection 6: Interaction15. Sexual Selection16. Cooperation and Conflict17. Symbiosis and Struggle