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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Losos Klappentext 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..."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. For anyone who is fascinated by evolutionary biology and who desire to understand better the day-by-day, species, ecosystem-by-ecosystem texture of its practice as a scientific profession. Zusammenfassung Essays by leading scientists, including Edmund Brodie III, James Curtsinger, Ted Daeschler, Douglas Emlen, Harry Greene, Luke Harmon, Hopi Hoekstra, Daniel Lieberman, Jonathan Losos, Axel Meyer, Teri J. Orr, Naomi Pierce, David C. Queller, Neil Shubin, David Reznick, Michael Ryan, Marlene Zuk, and Carl Zimmer. Foreword by David Quammen. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by David QuammenCharles Darwin: Traveller, Author, and Naturalist by Janet BrowneDarwin in the Pumpkin Patch or Bay Area Travels with Charlie by James CurtsingerDarwin Under the Microscope: Witnessing Evolution In Microbes by Carl ZimmerFour Legs Good, Two Legs Fortuitous: Brains, Brawn, and the Evolution of Human Bipedalism by Daniel LiebermanDetective Work in the West Indies: Integrating Historical and Experimental Approaches to Study the Evolutionary Diversification of Island Lizards by Jonathan B. LososPatterns, Process, and the Parable of the Coffeepot Incident: Arms Races Between Newts and Snakes from Landscapes to Molecules by Edmund D. Brodie, IIIThe Herbivore's Dilemma: Never Enough Nitrogen by Naomi E. Pierce and Andrew BerryMy Island Life by Luke HarmonDiversity in the Weapons of Sexual Selection: Horn Evolution in Dung Beetles by Douglas EmlenSex, Society, and Peacock Tails: Sexual Selection from Darwin to Modern Times by Marlene Zuk and Teri OrrSexual Selection: A Tutorial from the Túngara Frog by Michael J. RyanGuppies and the Empirical Study of Adaptation by David ReznickO Sting, Where Is Thy Death? The Evolution of Altruism by David QuellerKing Midas and His Many Extremely Young Species: Studies on Speciation in Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes in Nicaragua by Axel MeyerFrom Darwin to DNA: The Genetic Basis of Color Adaptations by Hopi E. HoekstraFossil Discovery and the Origin of Tetrapods by Ted Daeschler and Neil ShubinLonghorns, Whitetails, and the Evolution of "Wild" by Harry W. Greene...
