The gold standard in undergraduate-level evolutionary biology textbooks.

This new fifth edition presents the field of evolution as a living, breathing science. Extensively revised for clarity and currency, Evolution, 5th Edition, includes updated coverage in evolutionary genetics and genomics to illustrate the rapidly moving science of evolution and emphasizes the interplay between theory and empirical test hypotheses, acquainting students with the process of science. Evolution is available in a dynamic interactive enhanced e-book that allows students hone their problem-solving and data analysis skills while seeing the evolution in the context of their life.

The eBook offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: Find the eBook on VitalSource.

Features

• Ideally suited in length and content for one-semester undergraduate evolution courses.
• A strong art program enhances the text and visual appeal of the content.
• Provides an abundance of empirical examples for each major concept.
• Interactive elements such as self-assessment questions, interactive figures, data exercises with real data sets, simulation exercises, and videos help engage students with the content.
• Addresses major themes - including the history of evolution, evolutionary processes, adaptation, and evolution as an explanatory framework - at levels of biological organization ranging from genomes to ecological communities
• Chapters build on each other in an easy-to-understand progression.

New to this Edition

• The Enhanced E-Book offers Video and Audio Vignettes that illustrate and bring to life the discussed themes in each chapter.
• Each chapter includes Learning Objectives outlining the important takeaways of every major section.
• The Enhanced E-Book provides Interactive Figures that enable students to break down and explore key figures of the text in detail.
• After each major section, students can gauge their understanding of important concepts with Self-Assessment practice quizzes available in the Enhanced E-Book.
• Completely rewritten end-of-chapter Problems and Discussion Topics.
• Increased the coverage of human biology to engage students studying health-related fields.
• Chapter 20 extensively covers the research on the DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans by 2022 Nobel Prize winner, Svante Pääbo.
• "What We Don't Know" boxes are included to convey that scientific ideas are constantly being tested and evolving, encouraging students to think like scientists.
• The importance of embracing the diversity of life in evolution is discussed, rather than focusing solely on a small number of model systems.
• Unit VII provides a succinct statistics primer introducing the concept of a probability distribution, reviewing the use of statistics in describing populations, simplifying complex datasets, and discussing hypothesis testing.
• Every chapter has been revised and updated.
• More pedagogical content is included at the end of each chapter.

Chapter 1: An Idea that Changed the World
Chapter 2: The Tree of Life
Chapter 3: Natural Selection and Adaptation
Chapter 4: Mutation and Variation
Chapter 5: The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
Chapter 6: Genetic Drift: Evolution at Random
Chapter 7: Quantitative Traits
Chapter 8: Evolution in Space
Chapter 9: Species and Speciation
Chapter 10: The Evolution of Genes and Genomes
Chapter 11: Evolution and Development
Chapter 12: All about Sex
Chapter 13: Cooperation and Conflict
Chapter 14: Evolutionary Ecology: How to be Fit
Chapter 15: Interactions among Species
Chapter 16: Phylogeny: The Unity and Diversity of Life
Chapter 17: The History of Life
Chapter 18: The Geography of Evolution
Chapter 19: Macroevolution: Evolution above the Species Level
Chapter 20: The Evolutionary Story of Homo sapiens
Chapter 21: Evolution and Society
Chapter 22: A Statistics Primer

Douglas Futuyma, UNITED STATES

Mark Kirkpatrick, UNITED STATES

Douglas Futuyma is recognized as one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists. His research is focused on the evolution and coevolution of ecological interactions among different species, especially between plants and herbivorous insects. His work with insects and host plants began as research to account for all of the genetic variation that has occurred in evolution. He is well known as the author of a leading college textbook on biological evolution and of a trade book that addresses creationist opposition to teaching avolution.

Mark Kirkpatrick is T.S. Painter Centennial Professor of Genetics at the University of Texas, Austin and heads the Kirkpatrick Lab. His work uses mathematical models and develops statistical tools to test hypotheses. Topics of focus include: chromosome evolution, speciation, sexual selection and species ranges.

"Evolution is good at providing a lot of empirical examples for each major concept, and I generally like the organization, particularly in the early units, where chapters build on each other in a good natural progression." -- Jeremy Yoder, CSU Northridge

"Very good combination of large-scale evolutionary trends and overview of our understanding of evolution of Homo sapiens." -- Alyssa Bell, Cal Poly Pomona

"Generally quite well-organized and clearly written. Important topics are generally covered to a level that I would feel is appropriate for students in my class. The examples are generally interesting and well-illustrated." -- Rene Malenfant, University of New Brunswick

"Very well written and is probably the best textbook on evolution on the market right now. Full of data, including recent findings." -- Mark Sturtevant, Oakland University

"The overall organization of the book is excellent, with individual chapters collected into coherent and logically sequenced units of a few chapters each." -- Amitabh Joshi, Evolution Vol. 78