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Synopsis
The study of evolutionary adaptation returns to the center stage of biology with this important volume. This innovative treatise discusses foundations, achievements, and prospects for a rich intellectual future. Once again adaptation is established as a fundamental cornerstone of evolution by means of natural selection.
Key Features
• Provides wide-ranging and comprehensive coverage of adaptation
• Thoroughly reviews adaptation in an up-do-date and advanced treatment
• Includes contributions by leading authorities
• Encourages various conflicting viewpoints
Adaptation is an insightful reintroduction to the themes that Darwin and his successors regarded as central to any profound understanding of biology.
Booknews
The foundations, achievements, and future prospects of the study of evolutionary adapation are discussed in this reintroduction to the themes that Darwin and his successors regarded as central to any profound understanding of Biology. Chapters are divided into sections on concepts and theories of adaptation, including optimization and adaptation and a pocket guide to the theory of genes and adaptation; empirical methods for studying adaptation, including phenotypic manipulations; and the diversity of adaptive processes. Paper edition (596421-8), $34.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)