Front Matter -- Arthur M. Sackler, M.D. 1913-1987 (Biography) -- Contents -- Preface to the In the Light of Evolution Series -- Preface to In the Light of Evolution, Volume I: Adaptation and Complex Design -- Part I: INTRODUCTORY ESSAY -- 1 Darwin's Greatest Discovery: Design Without Designer--FRANCISCO J. AYALA -- Part II: EPISTEMOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO BIOCOMPLEXITY ASSESSMENT -- 2 Functional Information and the Emergence of Biocomplexity--ROBERT M. HAZEN, PATRICK L. GRIFFIN, JAMES M. CAROTHERS, and JACK W. SZOSTAK -- 3 The Theory of Facilitated Variation--JOHN GERHART and MARC KIRSCHNER -- 4 Between ''Design'' and ''Bricolage'': Genetic Networks, Levels of Selection, and Adaptive Evolution--ADAM S. WILKINS -- 5 The Frailty of Adaptive Hypotheses for the Origins of Organismal Complexity--MICHAEL LYNCH -- Part III: FROM INDIVIDUAL ONTOGENY TO SYMBIOSIS: A HIERARCHY OF COMPLEXITY -- 6 Emerging Principles of Regulatory Evolution--BENJAMIN PRUD'HOMME, NICOLAS GOMPEL, and SEAN B. CARROLL -- 7 Evolution of Individuality During the Transition from Unicellular to Multicellular Life--RICHARD E. MICHOD -- 8 Insect Societies as Divided Organisms: The Complexities of Purpose and Cross-Purpose--JOAN E. STRASSMANN and DAVID C. QUELLER -- 9 Symbiosis as an Adaptive Process and Source of Phenotypic Complexity--NANCY A. MORAN -- Part IV: CASE STUDIES: DISSECTING COMPLEX PHENOTYPES -- 10 Adaptive Evolution of Color Vision as Seen Through the Eyes of Butterflies--FRANCESCA D. FRENTIU, GARY D. BERNARD, CRISTINA I. CUEVAS, MARILOU P. SISON-MANGUS, KATHLEEN L. PRUDIC, and ADRIANA D. BRISCOE -- 11 Plant Domestication, a Unique Opportunity to Identify the Genetic Basis of Adaptation--JEFFREY ROSS-IBARRA, PETER L. MORRELL, and BRANDON S. GAUT -- 12 An Experimental Test of Evolutionary Trade-Offs During Temperature Adaptation--ALBERT F. BENNETT and RICHARD E. LENSKI.

13 Two Routes to Functional Adaptation: Tibetan and Andean High-Altitude Natives--CYNTHIA M. BEALL -- 14 On the Origin and Evolutionary Diversification of Beetle Horns--DOUGLAS J. EMLEN, LAURA CORLEY LAVINE, and BEN EWEN-CAMPEN -- Part V: CONCLUDING ESSAY -- 15 Biological Design in Science Classrooms--EUGENIE C. SCOTT and NICHOLAS J. MATZKE -- References -- Index.