Evolutionary Principles (eBook)

Peter Calow (Autor)

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2013
Springer US (Verlag)
978-1-4684-1518-6 (ISBN)

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The last few years have seen a number of new books on evolutionary biology. However most of these are either large or specialized. This is an attempt to produce a thin, general version for undergraduate use. Thinness, of course, demands selectivity, and the aim has been to concentrate on the principles of the subject rather than on the details-principles, that is, of both theory and practice. Thinness also sometimes means that a certain level of knowledge is assumed in the readership, but I hope that this is not the case here, and my intention has certainly been to produce something that is as intelligible to the uninitiated as it is to the well-informed. As for the bibliography, I refer, where possible, to reviews rather than primary sources, so a citation should not be taken to imply any sort of precedence. In developing the theme, I have adopted a loosely historical approach, not only because I believe that this makes for more interesting reading but also because the subject, like the subject it addresses, has evolved under the critical eye of a selective process. Problems have been perceived, hypotheses have been formulated to explain them, facts have been amassed to test the hypotheses, more problems have been perceived, more hypotheses formu- lated, and so on.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-4684-1518-2 / 1468415182
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-1518-6 / 9781468415186