EVOLUTION 3RD EDITION BY MARK RIDLEY

Book Name 
Evolution, 3rd Edition 
Author.... MARK RIDLEY
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Blackwell Publishing
Language. English
Category Book ----- Medical Book
Book Code 226
Paper Black 
Pages 786
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Introduction

W hen Darwin put forward his theory of evolution by natural selection, he lacked a

satisfactory theory of inheritance, and the importance of natural selection was

widely doubted until it was shown in the 1920s and 1930s how natural selection

could operate with Mendelian inheritance. The two key events in the history of evolutionary

thought are therefore Darwin’s discovery of evolution by natural selection and the synthesis

of Darwin’s and Mendel’s theories  a a synthesis variously called the modern synthesis, the

synthetic theory of evolution, and neo-Darwinism. Chapter 1 discusses the rise of evolution-

ary theory historically, and introduces some of its main figures. During the twentieth cen-

tury, the sciences of evolutionary biology and genetics have developed together and some

knowledge  of  genetics  is  essential  for  understanding  the  modern  theory  of  evolution.

Chapter 2 provides an elementary review of the main genetic mechanisms. In Chapter 3, we

move on to consider the evidence for evolution  a the evidence that species have evolved

from other, ancestral species rather than having separate origins and remaining forever

fixed in form. The classic case for evolution was made in Darwin’s On the Origin of Species

and his general arguments still apply; but it is now possible to use more recent molecular

and genetic evidence to illustrate them. Chapter 4 introduces the concept of natural selec-

tion. It considers the conditions for natural selection to operate, and the main kinds of 

natural selection. One crucial condition is that the population should be variable, that is,

individuals should differ from one another; the chapter shows that variation is common in

nature. New variants originate in mutation. Chapter 2 reviews the main kinds of mutation,

and how mutation rates are measured. Chapter 4 looks at how mutations contribute to vari-

ation, and discusses why mutation can be expected to be adaptively undirected.

Brief Contents

Full Contents vii

Preface xxii

PART 1. INTRODUCTION 1

1. The Rise of Evolutionary Biology 3

2. Molecular and Mendelian Genetics 21

3. The Evidence for Evolution 43

4. Natural Selection and Variation 71

PART 2. EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS 93

5. The Theory of Natural Selection 95

6. Random Events in Population Genetics 137

7. Natural Selection and Random Drift in Molecular Evolution 155

8. Two-locus and Multilocus Population Genetics 194

9. Quantitative Genetics 222

PART 3. ADAPTATION AND NATURAL SELECTION 253

10. Adaptive Explanation 255

11. The Units of Selection 292

12. Adaptations in Sexual Reproduction 313

PART 4. EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY 345

13. Species Concepts and Intraspecific Variation 347

14. Speciation 381

15. The Reconstruction of Phylogeny 423

16. Classification and Evolution 471

17. Evolutionary Biogeography 492PART 5. MACROEVOLUTION 521

18. The History of Life 523

19. Evolutionary Genomics 556

20. Evolutionary Developmental Biology 572

21. Rates of Evolution 590

22. Coevolution 613

23. Extinction and Radiation 643

Glossary 682

Answers to Study and Review Questions 690

References 699

Index 733

Color plate section between pp. 70 and 71

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