Evolution on Islands - Hardcover

Grant, Peter R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198501722 ISBN 13: 9780198501725

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Intended for undergraduates, graduates, researchers, and college lecturers in the fields of evolutionary biology, ecology, and biogeography, this text includes coverage of: patterns on islands and microevolution; natural selection and random genetic drift as causes of evolution on islands; and the reproductive biology and genetics of island plants.

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Review

This volume contains thirteen chapters based on a Royal Society discussion meeting (1995) but revised and updated with new introductory chapters by the editor to each of the three main sections of the book. They cover patterns on islands and microevolution; speciation; and radiations, communities and biogeography. A new contribution on adaptive plant evolution is also included. (ASLIB 63.9,00/09/1998)

I would certainly add Evolution on Islands to the essential reading list...: indeed it focused my mind more clearly on both the potential and the pitfalls. (Jeremy Holloway, Heredity, 81, 120124.)

The contributed chapters are almost all excellent, and the book is well worth reading, particularly for those interested in speciation.J Coyne, Evolution, 52(6) P1877, 1998

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198501722
• ISBN 13: 9780198501725
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348