Process and Pattern in Evolution - Hardcover

Avers, Professor Of Biology Charlotte J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195052757 ISBN 13: 9780195052756

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1989

Synopsis

This textbook examines a broad range of topics covered in evolutionary biology courses. Part one sets the historical, physical, and chemical framework for the origin of life, and provides in-depth coverage of genome evolution, metabolic pathways, the genetic code, and cellular organization in primeval life. Part two concentrates on the genetic processes underlying the diversity of gene organization, function, and expression; adaptation and neutral evolution; gene frequency changes in populations; and tempos and modes of speciation. Part three emphasizes patterns and trends in evolution as deduced from morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses and from geological and paleontological studies. The final two chapters describe major evolutionary concepts as seen in the emergence of the human family from its ancestral vertebrate beginnings to Homo sapiens. The text is enhanced by numerous tables and illustrations, many from the original research literature. Extensive
references, reading lists, and summaries accompany each chapter, providing students with the opportunity to explore further the ongoing challenge of the evolutionary biology of past and present life on Earth.

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From the Back Cover

Evolution provides a broad umbrella that covers and integrates virtually all of biology and is made even more sweeping by contributions from astronomers, chemists, geologists, philosophers, physicists, and others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195052757
• ISBN 13: 9780195052756
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608