The Basics of Selection - Softcover

Bell, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0412055317 ISBN 13: 9780412055317

Publisher: Springer, 1996

Synopsis

This new textbook for students taking courses in evolution is addressed to one of the most difficult questions evolutionary biology, that of selection. Covering both artificial and natural selection, the author has written a short, readable text that will appeal to students and professionals alike. how the nature of the process determines the nature of evolutionary change.

About this title

About the Author

Graham Bell is Molson Professor of Genetics and the Director of the Redpath Museum at McGill University in Montreal.

From the Back Cover

This textbook gives a complete and easy-to-use account of the basic principles governing the central concept of evolutionary theory: selection. It describes how the experimental study of evolution has elucidated the process of selection and how it drives evolutionary change. Graham Bell, an internationally recognized evolutionary biologist, has written a simple text that avoids mathematical arguments or technical details, while giving a rigorous introduction to the field. The book is organized as a series of short sections, each designed to make a particular point, and illustrated whenever possible by experimental results. The Basics of Selection is the only textbook to give a comprehensive coverage of the process of selection. Its simple style and logical organization makes it readily accessible to all undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in evolution, evolutionary or ecological genetics, or any allied field in biology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0412055317
• ISBN 13: 9780412055317
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404