Table of Contents

The Rise of Evolutionary Biology; Molecular and Mendelian Genetics; The Evidence for Evolution; Natural Selection and Variation; The Theory of Natural Selection; Random Events in Population Genetics; Molecular Evolution and the Neutral Theory; Two Locus and Multi-Locus Population Genetics; Quantitative Genetics; Genome Evolution; The Analysis of Adaptation; The Units of Selection; Adaptive Explanation; Evolution and Classification; The Idea of a Species; Speciation; The Reconstruction of Phylogeny; Evolutionary Biogeography; The Fossil Record; Rates of Evolution; Macroevolutionary Change; Coevolution; Extinction