"By combining recent advances in the physical sciences with some of the novel ideas, techniques, and data of modern biology, this book attempts to achieve a new and different kind of evolutionary synt
The focus here is on two important evolutionary phenomena: how species arise, and how a given species acquires its particular repertoire of behavioral and ecological characters. Annotation copyright B
All living things on earth—from individual species to entire ecosystems—have evolved through time, and evolution is the acknowledged framework of modern biology. Yet many areas of biology have moved f