In the Light of Evolution: Essays from the Laboratory and Field

Name: In the Light of Evolution: Essays from the Laboratory and Field
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ISBN: 9780981519494

ISBN-10: 0981519490

ISBN-13: 9780981519494

Edition: 2nd 2011

Authors: Jonathan Losos

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In the Light of Evolution is a collection of essays by leading scientists, and includes essays by science writer Carl Zimmer, historian Janet Browne, and a foreword by journalist David Quammen. As Quammen says in his foreword, the book collects "reports from the field, plainspoken descriptions of lifetime obsessions, hard-earned bits of wisdom, and works in progress, pried loose from some of the most interesting, eminent researchers in evolutionary biology..." It is a book "for readers who are fascinated by evolutionary biology and who desire to understand better the day-by-day, speciesby-species, ecosystem-by-ecosystem texture of its practice as a scientific profession." The book is…

Book details

List price: $44.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: W. H. Freeman & Company
Publication date: 1/3/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 7.31" wide x 10.22" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.662
Language: English

Jonathan B. Lososis Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Curator in Herpetology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.



Foreword



Charles Darwin: Traveller, Author, and Naturalist



Darwin in the Pumpkin Patch or Bay Area Travels with Charlie



Darwin Under the Microscope: Witnessing Evolution in Microbes



Four Legs Good, Two Legs Fortuitous: Brains, Brawn, and the Evolution of Human Bipedalism



Detective Work in the West Indies: Integrating Historical and Experimental Approaches to Study the Evolutionary Diversification of Island Lizards



Patterns, Process, and the Parable of the Coffeepot Incident: Arms Races Between Newts and Snakes from Landscapes to Molecules



The Herbivore's Dilemma: Never Enough Nitrogen



My Island Life



Diversity in the Weapons of Sexual Selection: Horn Evolution in Dung Beetles



Sex, Society, and Peacock Tails: Sexual Selection from Darwin to Modern Times



Sexual Selection: A Tutorial from the Tï¿½ngara Frog



Guppies and the Empirical Study of Adaptation



O Sting, Where Is Thy Death? The Evolution of Altruism



King Midas and His Many Extremely Young Species: Studies on Speciation in Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes in Nicaraguan Crater Lakes



From Darwin to DNA: The Genetic Basis of Color Adaptations



Fossil Discovery and the Origin of Tetrapods



Longhorns, Whitetails, and the Evolution of "Wild"



Biographies of Essayists