Evolution

Douglas J. Futuyma is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. His major research interests include evolution of host specificity in herbivorous insects and of interactions among insects and plants, speciation, and evolution of community structure. Dr. Futuyma received the 1997 Sewall Wright Award of the American Society of Naturalists and the 2012 Joseph Leidy Award of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. He has served as President of the Society for the Study of Evolution (1987), the American Society of Naturalists (1994), and the American Institute of Biological Sciences (2007), and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. Dr. Futuyma has served as Editor of Evolution and is currently Editor of the Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics .

Thoroughly updated with new content, figures and citations, the third edition addresses major themes in contemporary evolutionary biology - including the history of evolution, evolutionary processes, adaptation, and evolution as an explanatory framework - at levels of biological organization ranging from genomes to ecological communities.

Thoroughly updated with new content, figures and citations, the third edition addresses major themes in contemporary evolutionary biology - including the history of evolution, evolutionary processes, adaptation, and evolution as an explanatory framework - at levels of biological organization ranging from genomes to ecological communities.

Thoroughly updated, the new edition of this popular text provides a comprehensive treatment of evolutionary biology - addressing major themes and the nature and process of science

1. Evolutionary Biology.- 2. The Tree of Life: Classification and Phylogeny.- 3. Patterns of Evolution.- 4. Evolution in the Fossil Record.- 5. A History of Life on Earth.- 6. The Geography of Evolution.- 7. The Evolution of Biodiversity.- 8. The Origin of Genetic Variation.- 9. Variation: The Foundation of Evolution.- 10. Genetic Drift: Evolution at Random.- 11. Natural Selection and Adaptation.- 12. The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection.- 13. Phenotypic Evolution.- 14. The Evolution of Life Histories.- 15. Sex and Reproductive Success.- 16. Conflict and Cooperation.- 17. Species.- 18. Speciation.- 19. The Evolution of Interactions among Species.- 20. Evolution of Genes and Genomes.- 21. Evolution and Development.- 22. Macroevolution: Evolution above the Species Level.- 23. Evolutionary Science, Creationism and Society.- Glossary.