『Evolution: Making Sense of Life』

Carl Zimmer and Douglas Emlen

(2013年刊行,Roberts and Company, Greenwood Village, xxxiv+680 pp., ISBN:9781936221172 [hbk] / ISBN:9781936221363 [pbk])

【目次】
Preface xxvi
Chapter 1: The Virus and the Whale: How Scientists Study Evolution 2
Chapter 2: Biology: From Natural Philosophy to Darwin 32
Chapter 3: What the Rocks Say: How Geology and Paleontology Reveal the History of Life 50
Chapter 4: The Tree of Life: How Biologists Use Phylogeny to Reconstruct the Deep Past 82
Chapter 5: Raw Material: Heritable Variation among Individuals 120
Chapter 6: The Ways of Change: Drift, and Selection 152
Chapter 7: Beyond Alleles: Quantitative Genetics and the Evolution of Phenotypes 190
Chapter 8: Natural Selection: Empirical Studies in the Wild 218
Chapter 9: The History in Our Genes 254
Chapter 10: Adaptation: From Genes to Traits 288
Chapter 11: Sex: Causes and Consequences 328
Chapter 12: After Conception: The Evolution of Parental Care and Life Histories 366
Chapter 13: The Origin of Species 392
Chapter 14: Macroevolution: The Long Run (With Kevin Padian, University of California, Berkeley) 432
Chapter 15: Intimate Partnership: How Species Adapt to Each Other 474
Chapter 16: Minds and Microbes: The Evolution of Behavior 512
Chapter 17: Human Evolution: A New Kind of Ape 552
Chapter 18: Evolutionary Medicine 604


Glossary 647
Answers to Multiple Choice Questions 655
Credits 657
Index 661