Brief Contents
UNIT I
An Idea that Changed the World 1CHAPTER 1 Evolutionary Biology 3
CHAPTER 2 The Tree of Life 27
CHAPTER 3 Natural Selection and
Adaptation 55UNIT II
How Evolution Works 77CHAPTER 4 Mutation and Variation 79
CHAPTER 5 The Genetical Theory of
Natural Selection 103CHAPTER 6 Phenotypic Evolution 135
CHAPTER 7 Genetic Drift: Evolution at
Random 165CHAPTER 8 Evolution in Space 191
CHAPTER 9 Species and Speciation 213
UNIT III
Products of Evolution: What Natural
Selection Has Wrought 245CHAPTER 10 All About Sex 247
CHAPTER 11 How to Be Fit 275
CHAPTER 12 Cooperation and Conflict 295
CHAPTER 13 Interactions among
Species 321CHAPTER 1 4 The Evolution of Genes and
Genomes 345CHAPTER 15 Evolution and
Development 369UNIT IV
Macroevolution and the History
of Life 399CHAPTER 16 Phylogeny: The
Unity and Diversity
of Life 401CHAPTER 17 The History of Life 431
CHAPTER 18 The Geography
of Evolution 469CHAPTER 19 The Evolution of
Biological
Diversity 491CHAPTER 20 Macroevolution:
Evolution above the
Species Level 515UNIT V
Evolution and Homo sapiens 545CHAPTER 21 The Evolutionary
Story of Homo
sapiens 547CHAPTER 22 Evolution and
Society 573I
II
III
IV
V
00_EVOL4E_FM.indd 6 3/24/17 9:14 AM