1. The Whale and the Virus: How Scientists Study Evolution.- 2. From Natural Philosophy to Darwin: A Brief History of Evolutionary Ideas.- 3. What the Rocks Say: How Geology and Paleontology Reveal the History of Life.- 4. The Tree of Life: How Biologists Use Phylogeny to Reconstruct the Deep Past.- 5. Raw Material: Heritable Variation among Individuals.- 6. The Ways of Change: Drift and Selection.- 7. Beyond Alleles: Quantitative Genetics and the Evolution of Phenotypes.- 8. Natural Selection: Empirical Studies in the Wild.- 9. The History in Our Genes.- 10. Adaptation: From Genes to Traits.- 11. Sex: Causes and Consequences.- 12. After Conception: The Evolution of Life History and Parental Care.- 13. The Origin of Species.- 14. Macroevolution: The Long Run.- 15. Intimate Partnership: How Species Adapt to Each Other.- 16. Minds and Microbes: The Evolution of Behavior.- 17. Human Evolution: A New Kind of Ape.- 18. Evolutionary Medicine.
Carl Zimmer is one of the country's leading science writers. A
columnist for The New York Times and a regular contributor to
magazines such as Scientific American and National Geographic, he
is the author of thirteen books, including The Tangled Bank: An
Introduction to Evolution and A Planet of Viruses. Zimmer is a
lecturer at Yale University, where he teaches science writing. He
is a three-time winner of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science Journalism Award and the winner of the
National Academies Communication Award. In 2015, he was awarded the
Distinguished Service Award by the National Association of Biology
Teachers.
Douglas J. Emlen is a professor at the University of Montana. He is
the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and
Engineering from the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the
White House, multiple research awards from the National Science
Foundation, including their five-year CAREER award, and a Young
Investigator Prize and the E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award from the
American Society of Naturalists. He is the author of Animal
Weapons: The Evolution of Battle and his research has been featured
in outlets including the New York Times and National Public Radio's
Fresh Air and Science Friday.
"Zimmer is the master of taking current primary literature and
making it come alive." Mathew J. Miller, Villanova University
"Exciting is a word not often used to describe a new textbook. But
by using powerful examples, beautiful images, and finely wrought
prose, Zimmer and Emlen have produced a book that not only conveys
the explanatory power of evolution, but is also permeated with the
joy of doing science. Their text can only be described as an
exciting moment for our field: it is an important accomplishment
for our students and for evolutionary biology at large." Neil
Shubin, University of Chicago
"I think my students will be genuinely more at ease with their
reading assignments and more able to assimilate and retain
information from this text. The authors use their expert narrative
skills to focus on the big conceptual ideas, which is what matters
most in my students' long-term education." Bronwyn H. Bleakley,
Stonehill College
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