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Helping students make sense of evolution Evolutionary Biologist, Douglas Emlen and Science Writer, Carl Zimmer continue to improve their widely-praised evolution textbook. Emlen, an award-winning evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, has infused Evolution: Making Sense of Life with the technical rigour and conceptual depth that today’s biology majors require. Zimmer, an award-winning New York Times columnist, brings compelling storytelling to the book, bringing evolutionary research to life through a narrative sure to capture the attention of evolution students. The new edition of Evolution: Making Sense of Life is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-books, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.

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Author:   Douglas J. Emlen ,  Carl Zimmer
Publisher:   Macmillan Learning
Imprint:   W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
Edition:   3rd ed. 2020
ISBN:  

9781319322199

ISBN 10:   1319322190
Pages:   752
Publication Date:   01 August 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1.- The Whale and the Virus: How Scientists Study Evolution.- 2  From Natural Philosophy to Darwin: A Brief History of Evolutionary Ideas.- 3 What the Rocks Say: How Geology and Paleontology Reveal the History of Life.- 4 The Tree of Life: How Biologists Use Phylogeny to Reconstruct the Deep Past.- 5 Raw Material: Heritable Variation Among Individuals.6 The Ways of Change: Drift and Selection.- 7 Beyond Alleles: Quantitative Genetics and the Evolution of Phenotypes.- 8 The History in Our Genes.- 9 From Genes to Traits: The Evolution of Genetic Networks and Development.- 10 Natural Selection: Empirical Studies in the Wild.- 11 Sex: Causes and Consequences.- 12 After Conception: The Evolution of Life History and Parental Care.- 13 The Origin of Species.- 14 Macroevolution: The Long Run.- 15 Intimate Partnerships: How Species Adapt to Each Other.-16 Brains and Behavior.- 17 Human Evolution: A New Kind of Ape.- 18 Evolutionary Medicine.

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Douglas J. Emlen is a professor at the University of Montana. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, multiple research awards from the National Science Foundation including their five-year CAREER award, and the E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award from the American Society of Naturalists.                                            Carl Zimmer is one of the country’s leading science writers. A columnist for the New York Times, he is the author of 13 books, including She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potentials of Heredity, which The Guardian named the best science book of 2018. Zimmer is professor adjunct at Yale University, where he teaches science writing. Among his many honors, Zimmer has won the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the National Association of Biology Teachers Distinguished Service Award.

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