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Author:   Jonathan Losos
Publisher:   Macmillan Learning
Imprint:   Roberts & Company Publishers
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.098kg
ISBN:  

9780981519494

ISBN 10:   0981519490
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   03 January 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword David Quammen Charles Darwin: Traveller, Author, and Naturalist Janet Browne Darwin in the Pumpkin Patch or Bay Area Travels with Charlie James Curtsinger Darwin Under the Microscope: Witnessing Evolution In Microbes Carl Zimmer Four Legs Good, Two Legs Fortuitous: Brains, Brawn, and the Evolution of Human Bipedalism Daniel Lieberman Detective Work in the West Indies: Integrating Historical and Experimental Approaches to Study the Evolutionary Diversification of Island Lizards Jonathan B. Losos Patterns, Process, and the Parable of the Coffeepot Incident: Arms Races Between Newts and Snakes from Landscapes to Molecules Edmund D. Brodie, III The Herbivore's Dilemma: Never Enough Nitrogen Naomi E. Pierce and Andrew Berry My Island Life Luke Harmon Diversity in the Weapons of Sexual Selection: Horn Evolution in Dung Beetles Douglas Emlen Sex, Society, and Peacock Tails: Sexual Selection from Darwin to Modern Times Marlene Zuk and Teri Orr Sexual Selection: A Tutorial from the Tungara Frog Michael J. Ryan Guppies and the Empirical Study of Adaptation David Reznick O Sting, Where Is Thy Death? The Evolution of Altruism David Queller King Midas and His Many Extremely Young Species: Studies on Speciation in Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes in Nicaragua Axel Meyer Hopi Hoekstra Fossil Discovery and the Origin of Tetrapods Ted Daeschler and Neil Shubin Longhorns, Whitetails, and the Evolution of WildA Harry W. Greene

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<p> In the Light of Evolution is exactly what both other scientists and the public need in the quest for understanding of this vitally important subject: a dispatch from the front, by scientists directly engaged in research on evolution, accompanied by a leading historian and the most knowledgeable journalists. --Edward O. Wilson, University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University and author of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge.

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Jonathan Losos is Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America at Harvard University. He is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution and the David Starr Jordan Prize from the American Society of Naturalists. He is the author of Lizards in the Evolutionary Tree: Ecology, Evolution, and Adaptive Radiation of Anolis (University of California Press).

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