In the Light of Evolution : Essays from the Laboratory and the Field
ISBN: 9780981519494 | 0981519490
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Roberts & Co
Pub. Date: 1/3/2011
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In the Light of Evolution is a collection of essays by leading scientists, including Edmund Brodie III, James Curtsinger, Ted Daeschler, Douglas Emlen, Harry Greene, Luke Harmon, Hopi Hoekstra, Daniel Lieberman, Jonathan Losos, Axel Meyer, Teri J. Orr, Naomi Pierce, David C. Queller, Neil Shubin, David Reznick, Michael Ryan, and Marlene Zuk. The book also includes essays by science writers Carl Zimmer, Andrew Berry, historian Janet Browne, and a foreword by journalist David Quammen.
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Charles Darwin: Traveller, Author, and Naturalist | p. 1 |
| Darwin in the Pumpkin Patch or Bay Area Travels with Charlie | p. 27 |
| Darwin Under the Microscope: Witnessing Evolution in Microbes | p. 41 |
| Four Legs Good, Two Legs Fortuitous: Brains, Brawn, and the Evolution of Human Bipedalism | p. 55 |
| Detective Work in the West Indies: Integrating Historical and Experimental Approaches to Study the Evolution... MORE | p. 73 |
| Patterns, Process, and the Parable of the Coffeepot Incident: Arms Races Between Newts and Snakes from Landscapes to Molecules | p. 93 |
| The Herbivore's Dilemma: Never Enough Nitrogen | p. 121 |
| My Island Life | p. 135 |
| Diversity in the Weapons of Sexual Selection: Horn Evolution in Dung Beetles | p. 149 |
| Sex, Society, and Peacock Tails: Sexual Selection from Darwin to Modern Times | p. 171 |
| Sexual Selection: A Tutorial from the Túngara Frog | p. 185 |
| Guppies and the Empirical Study of Adaptation | p. 205 |
| O Sting, Where Is Thy Death? The Evolution of Altruism | p. 233 |
| King Midas and His Many Extremely Young Species: Studies on Speciation in Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes in Nicaraguan Crater Lakes | p. 257 |
| From Darwin to DNA: The Genetic Basis of Color Adaptations | p. 277 |
| Fossil Discovery and the Origin of Tetrapods | p. 297 |
| Longhorns, Whitetails, and the Evolution of "Wild" | p. 311 |
| Biographies of Essayists | p. 323 |
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Jonathan Losos is Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America at Harvard University. He is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution and the David Starr Jordan Prize from the American Society of Naturalists. He is the author of Lizards in the Evolutionary Tree: Ecology, Evolution, and Adaptive Radiation of Anolis (University of California Press).
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