In the Light of Evolution: Essays from the Laboratory and Field - Hardcover

Losos, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0981519490 ISBN 13: 9780981519494

Publisher: W. H. Freeman, 2011

Synopsis

In the Light of Evolution is a collection of essays by leading scientists, and includes essays by science writer Carl Zimmer, historian Janet Browne, and a foreword by journalist David Quammen. As Quammen says in his foreword, the book collects "reports from the field, plainspoken descriptions of lifetime obsessions, hard-earned bits of wisdom, and works in progress, pried loose from some of the most interesting, eminent researchers in evolutionary biology..." It is a book "for readers who are fascinated by evolutionary biology and who desire to understand better the day-by-day, speciesby-species, ecosystem-by-ecosystem texture of its practice as a scientific profession." The book is intended for anyone with an interest in evolution, and it can be used in a wide variety of courses, including major's and non-major's introductory biology and evolution classes.

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About the Author

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: W. H. Freeman
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0981519490
• ISBN 13: 9780981519494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336