Evolution: The First Four Billion Years

Michael Ruse, Joseph Travis, Edward O. Wilson, Evolution: The First Four Billion Years

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press | 2009 | ISBN: 067403175X | 1008 pages | File type: PDF | 82,1 mb

Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, authoritative, and inviting one-volume introduction to evolutionary biology available. Clear, informative, and comprehensive in scope, Evolution opens with a series of major essays dealing with the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology, with major empirical and theoretical questions in the science, from speciation to adaptation, from paleontology to evolutionary development (evo devo), and concluding with essays on the social and political significance of evolutionary biology today

Appearing at the beginning of the Darwin Year of 2009 "the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species" this volume is a fitting tribute to the science Darwin set in motion.

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