Evolutionary Genetics - Softcover

Smith, John Maynard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198542151 ISBN 13: 9780198542155

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1989

Synopsis

This textbook, aimed at advanced undergraduates, covers those aspects of genetics - molecular and population - needed to understand the mechanisms of evolution. It discusses the mechanisms of evolution as opposed to describing the techniques, molecular, biometric or cladistic whereby phlogenies can be constructed. It covers basic population and quantitative genetics; evolutionary game theory; evolution of behaviour; prokaryote evolution; evolution of the genomes; sex recombination, breeding systems and sexual selection; speciation and macroevolution. It applies the basic theory to topics such as social behaviour, molecular evolution, reiterated DNA and sex, which are the main subjects of current research in evolutionary biology. Each chapter contains a set of problems (with answers) and suggested computer projects. These are important because they combine population and molecular approaches to evolution, and show how population genetics can be applied to biological problems.

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Review

'...well-established textbook...clearer than the first edition, and more up to date - though it is to the credit of the first edition that, ten years on, it has not dated very much at all...Maynard Smith has always been a consummate communicator, as well as a seminal thinker, and the second edition of Evolutionary Genetics is yet another testament to this rare combination of skills.' (Dylan Evans, Cell Biology International.)

'The first edition of this now well-established textbook provided the advanced undergraduate student with a clear and comprehensive introduction to those aspects of genetics that are vital to understanding evolution...a standard pedagogical work. The recent publication of a revised second edition should ensure that the book retains this position...Maynard Smith has always been a consummate communicator, as well as a seminal thinker, and the second edition of Evolutionary Genetics is yet another testament to this rare combination of skills.' (Dylan Evans, Cell Biology International 1998, vol.22, No.4, 327.)

About the Author

John Maynard Smith, Professor of Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG. Tel. 01273-606755.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198542151
• ISBN 13: 9780198542155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344