The Evolution of Life

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 regul...