About the Author:
Stephen C. Stearns, Professor of Zoology and Director, Zoology Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Review:
..a nice, slim, inexpensive, up-to-date, user-friendly textbook pitched at exactly the right level...Stearns and Hoekstra excel both on presentation and content. The uncluttered pages and numerous sub-headings are inviting...The questions at the end of each chapter are though provoking...the best undergraduate evolution textbook available. The Times Higher Education Supplement, Friday 25th February 2000
..a nice, slim, inexpensive, up-to-date, user-friendly textbook pitched at exactly the right level...Stearns and Hoekstra excel both on presentation and content. The uncluttered pages and numerous sub-headings are inviting...The questions at the end of each chapter are though provoking...the best undergraduate evolution textbook available. George F Turner, Head of Biochemistry, University of Southampton/The Times Higher Education Supplement, Friday 25/02/2000
I felt I must write and congratulate you and thank you for the excellent text-book you and your co-author (whom I don't think I have ever met) have written. I am full of admiration of your skill in writing briefly and succinctly and yet cover so much ground and making it clear that in many cases things are not all that straightforward. As has been said, any fool can write a thick book but it takes talent to write a short one. I am convinced your book will be widely used and make splendid service in many years to come./Staffan Ulfstrand at Uppsala.
"Willis's and McElwain's book will appeal to a wide spectrum of researchers, teachers and students with interests ranging from biogeography to geology, through botany, ecology and plant physiology". The Holocene, 2003.
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