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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Understanding Evolution
The Evidence for Evolution
The Fossil Record
Structural Similarities
Embryonic Development and Vestiges
Biogeography
Molecular Biology
History of Evolutionary Theory
Early Ideas
Charles Darwin
Lamarckism
Modern Conceptions
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
The Cultural Impact of Evolutionary Theory
Scientific Acceptance and Extension to Other Disciplines
Religious Criticism and Acceptance
Intelligent Design and Its Critics
Chapter 2: The Process of Evolution
Evolution as a Genetic Function
Genetic Variation in Populations
The Origin of Genetic Variation: Mutations
Industrial Melanism
The Dynamics of Genetic Change
Genetic Equilibrium: The Hardy-Weinberg Law
The Processes of Gene-Frequency Change
The Operation of Natural Selection in Populations
Natural Selection as a Process of Genetic Change
Analogy
Homology
Types of Selection
Chapter 3: Species and Speciation
The Origin of Species
Reproductive Isolation
A Model of Speciation
Geographic Speciation
Adaptive Radiation
Quantum Speciation
Polyploidy
Genetic Differentiation During Speciation
Patterns and Rates of Species Evolution
Evolution Within a Lineage and by Lineage Splitting
Convergent and Parallel Evolution
Gradual and Punctuational Evolution
Diversity and Extinction
Evolution and Development
Chapter 4: Reconstruction of Evolutionary History
DNA and Protein as Informational Macromolecules
Evolutionary Trees
Distance Methods
Maximum Parsimony Methods
Maximum Likelihood Methods
Evaluation of Evolutionary Trees
Molecular Evolution
Molecular Phylogeny of Genes
Multiplicity and Rate Heterogeneity
The Molecular Clock of Evolution
The Neutrality Theory of Molecular Evolution
Chapter 5: Notable Evolutionary Thinkers
Charles Darwin
Early Life and Education
The Beagle Voyage
Evolution by Natural Selection: The London Years, 1836–42
The Squire Naturalist in Downe
On the Origin of Species
The Patriarch in His Home Laboratory
The Private Man and the Public Debate
Richard Dawkins
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Sir Julian Huxley
T.H. Huxley
Student Life
The Rattlesnake Voyage
“Darwin’s Bulldog”
Power and “Pope Huxley”
The Old Lion
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Early Life and Career
Professorship at the National Museum of Natural History
The Inheritance of Acquired Characters
Ernst Mayr
George Gaylord Simpson
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
Hugo de Vries
Alfred Russel Wallace
Early Life and Work
The Career of a Naturalist
Chapter 6: Related Evolutionary Concepts
Acquired Character
Adaptation
Adaptive Radiation
Cephalization
Darwinism
Dispersion
Effective Population Size
Emergence
Extinction
Mass Extinction Events
Human-Induced Extinctions
Kin Selection
Mosaic Evolution
Natural Selection
Orthogenesis
Parallel Evolution
Polymorphism
Selection
Speciation
Species
Taxonomy
Speciation
Identifying and Cataloging Species
Glossary
For Further Reading
Index
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