Evolution Making Sense of Life

Name: Evolution Making Sense of Life
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ISBN: 9781936221172

ISBN-10: 1936221179

ISBN-13: 9781936221172

Edition: 2012

Authors: Carl Zimmer, Douglas Emlen

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Science writer Carl Zimmer and evolutionary biologist Douglas Emlen have teamed up to write a textbook intended for biology majors that will inspire students while delivering a solid foundation in evolutionary biology. Zimmer brings the same story-telling skills he displayed in The Tangled Bank, his 2009 non-majors textbook that the Quarterly Review of Biology called “spectacularly successful.” Emlen, an award-winning evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, has infused Evolution: Making Sense of Life with the technical rigor and conceptual depth that today’s biology majors require. Students will learn the fundamental concepts of evolutionary theory, such as natural selection,…

Book details

List price: $125.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Roberts & Company
Publication date: 8/14/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 720
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 4.950
Language: English

Carl Zimmer writes the monthly essay in the US magazine Natural History, having inherited this position from Stephen Jay Gould.