Evolution -

Carl T. Bergsstrom, Lee Alan Dugatkin

W.W. Norton & Company

2012

787 páginas

1d 2h 14m

ISBN-10: 0393690148

We envy the student taking a class in evolutionary biology today.
It is an exciting time to study science, and the science of evolutionary biology is
more vibrant now than ever. In part, this is due to the new tools now available to
scientists—tools that just a generation ago were the stuff of dreams. But there is more
to it than that. Evolutionary biology is increasingly important in integrating the
biological sciences. Evolutionary biologists are now collaborating in new, dynamic
ways with researchers in many disciplines, and in so doing, they are bringing together
a diverse set of perspectives—from areas like phylogenetics, population genetics, the
study of adaptation, molecular genetics, and developmental biology, to name just a
few. The result is a much deeper understanding of the history and diversity of life on
Earth over the last 4 billion years or so. Our job as the authors of this book is to capture
the exciting work that has gone into this effort, and to present it in a rigorous and
engaging fashion.