Evolution

Fifth Edition

Douglas Futuyma and Mark Kirkpatrick

Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press

• 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:

• Learning objectives for each chapter.
• Revised figures to add visual clarity to the key points and include interactivity.
• The end-of-chapter Problems and Discussion Topics have been completely rewritten. Data analysis questions in appropriate chapters to give students practice in experiential design, and interpreting and analyzing data.
• Increased coverage of human biology to engage students studying health-related fields.
• In Chapter 20, extensive coverage of research by 2022 Nobel Prize winner, Svante Pääbo, on the DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans.
• "What We Don't Know" boxes convey scientific ideas are constantly being tested and evolving and to help students think like scientists.
• Discussion of why evolution must embrace the diversity of life rather than focusing on a small number of model systems.
• Unit VII is a statistics primer that succinctly introduces the concept of a probability distribution, reviews how statistics are used to describe populations, describes how complex datasets are simplified, and discusses how hypotheses are tested.
• Every chapter is revised and updated.
• Video and Audio Vignettes.
• More pedagogical content at the end of each chapter.

Evolution

Fifth Edition

Douglas Futuyma and Mark Kirkpatrick

Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press

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Evolution

Fifth Edition

Douglas Futuyma and Mark Kirkpatrick

Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press

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Evolution

Fifth Edition

Douglas Futuyma and Mark Kirkpatrick

Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press

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