Evolution from Molecules to Men

xiv, 594, text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w (spine slightly faded). From the library of the entomologist Peter Miller (1931-1996), with his signature to endpaper. Takes a broad view of biological evolution as a whole and attempts to identify the outstanding scientific problems as they appear to the most able exponents of the subject 100 years after the death of Charles Darwin. Topics discussed range from the history of the development of evolutionary thought, through current problems in molecular evolution and the evolution of whole organisms, to evolution of behaviour, sociobiology and man's place in evolution. Each chapter has been written by an acknowledged expert with the more general reader in mind, so the book will have a broad appeal. Includes contributions by E. Mayr, S.J. Gould, R. Dawkins, E.O. Wilson, among many others. [9780521247535].