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Edited by Mark Pagel
370 entries
A comprehensive guide to the essentials of evolutionary biology, these entries by leading experts survey essential concepts and theories, present methods, models and findings, and discuss both the history of the field and current controversies. Readers will find brief treatments on discrete concepts and individuals to illuminating lengthy essays by towering figures in the field. Topics include: Darwin, natural selection, human origins, behavioral ecology, diversity, mathematical models, and cell and developmental biology. Special essays include Stephen Jay Gould's “Macroevolution” and Jane Goodall and Elizabeth Vinson-Lonsdorf on “Culture in Chimpanzees.”
Mark Pagel is a professor in the Division of Zoology at the School of Animal and Microbial Sciences at the University of Reading.
e-reference edition ISBN: 0195187601
Print edition ISBN: 0195122003
Print edition publication date: 2002
Publishing history: First published 2002
Copyright: © 2002, 2005 by Oxford University Press, Inc.
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