John Maynard Smith, Smith John Maynard

The Theory of Evolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, John Maynard Smith describes how the theory of natural selection has been confirmed, but at the same time transformed, by recent research, and in particular by the discovery of the laws of inheritance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780521451284
• ISBN-10: 0521451280
• Artikelnr.: 22147901

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Preface
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the third edition
Foreword to the Canto edition by Richard Dawkins
Introduction to the Canto edition
1. Adaptation
2. The theory of natural selection
3. Heredity
4. Weismann, Lamarck and the central dogma
5. Molecular evolution
6. The origin and early evolution of life
7. The structure of chromosomes and the control of gene action
8. Variation
9. Artificial selection: some experiments with fruitflies
10. Natural selection in wild populations
11. Protein polymorphism
12. Altruism, social behaviour and sex
13. What are species?
14. The origins of species
15. What keeps species distinct?
16. The genetics of species differences
17. The fossil evidence
18. Evolution and development
19. Evolution and history
Further reading
Index.