BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 UNDERSTANDING EVOLUTION -- THE EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION -- THE FOSSIL RECORD -- STRUCTURAL SIMILARITIES -- EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT AND VESTIGES -- BIOGEOGRAPHY -- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY -- HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY -- EARLY IDEAS -- CHARLES DARWIN -- MODERN CONCEPTIONS -- THE CULTURAL IMPACT OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY -- SCIENTIFIC ACCEPTANCE AND EXTENSION TO OTHER DISCIPLINES -- RELIGIOUS CRITICISM AND ACCEPTANCE -- INTELLIGENT DESIGN AND ITS CRITICS -- CHAPTER 2 THE PROCESS OF EVOLUTION -- EVOLUTION AS A GENETIC FUNCTION -- GENETIC VARIATION IN POPULATIONS -- THE ORIGIN OF GENETIC VARIATION: MUTATIONS -- THE DYNAMICS OF GENETIC CHANGE -- GENETIC EQUILIBRIUM: THE HARDY-WEINBERG LAW -- THE PROCESSES OF GENE-FREQUENCY CHANGE -- THE OPERATION OF NATURAL SELECTION IN POPULATIONS -- NATURAL SELECTION AS A PROCESS OF GENETIC CHANGE -- FITNESSES OF THE THREE GENOTYPES AT THE SICKLE CELL ANEMIA LOCUS IN A POPULATION FROM NIGERIA -- FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SELECTION -- TYPES OF SELECTION -- CHAPTER 3 SPECIES AND SPECIATION -- THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES -- REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION -- A MODEL OF SPECIATION -- GEOGRAPHIC SPECIATION -- ADAPTIVE RADIATION -- QUANTUM SPECIATION -- POLYPLOIDY -- GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION DURING SPECIATION -- PATT ERNS AND RATES OF SPECIES EVOLUTION -- EVOLUTION WITHIN A LINEAGE AND BY LINEAGE SPLITTING -- CONVERGENT AND PARALLEL EVOLUTION -- GRADUAL AND PUNCTUATIONAL EVOLUTION -- DIVERSITY AND EXTINCTION -- EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER 4 RECONSTRUCTION OF EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY -- DNA AND PROTEIN AS INFORMATIONAL MACROMOLECULES -- EVOLUTIONARY TREES -- DISTANCE METHODS -- MINIMUM NUMBER OF NUCLEOTIDE DIFFERENCES IN GENES CODING FOR CYTOCHROME C IN 20 DIFFERENT ORGANISMS -- MAXIMUM PARSIMONY METHODS -- MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS -- EVALUATION OF EVOLUTIONARY TREES.

MOLECULAR EVOLUTION -- MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF GENES -- MULTIPLICITY AND RATE HETEROGENEITY -- THE MOLECULAR CLOCK OF EVOLUTION -- THE NEUTRALITY THEORY OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION -- CHAPTER 5 NOTABLE EVOLUTIONARY THINKERS -- CHARLES DARWIN -- EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION -- THE BEAGLE VOYAGE -- EVOLUTION BY NATURAL SELECTION: THE LONDON YEARS, 1836-42 -- THE SQUIRE NATURALIST IN DOWNE -- ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES -- THE PATRIARCH IN HIS HOME LABORATORY -- THE PRIVATE MAN AND THE PUBLIC DEBATE -- RICHARD DAWKINS -- THEODOSIUS DOBZHANSKY -- SIR JULIAN HUXLEY -- T.H. HUXLEY -- STUDENT LIFE -- THE RATTLESNAKE VOYAGE -- "DARWIN'S BULLDOG" -- POWER AND "POPE HUXLEY" -- THE OLD LION -- JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARCK -- EARLY LIFE AND CAREER -- PROFESSORSHIP AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY -- THE INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERS -- ERNST MAYR -- GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON -- GEORGE LEDYARD STEBBINS, JR. -- HUGO DE VRIES -- ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE -- EARLY LIFE AND WORK -- THE CAREER OF A NATURALIST -- CHAPTER 6 RELATED EVOLUTIONARY CONCEPTS -- ACQUIRED CHARACTER -- ADAPTATION -- ADAPTIVE RADIATION -- CEPHALIZATION -- DARWINISM -- DISPERSION -- EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE -- EMERGENCE -- EXTINCTION -- MASS EXTINCTION EVENTS -- HUMAN-INDUCED EXTINCTIONS -- KIN SELECTION -- MOSAIC EVOLUTION -- NATURAL SELECTION -- ORTHOGENESIS -- PARALLEL EVOLUTION -- POLYMORPHISM -- SELECTION -- SPECIATION -- SPECIES -- TAXONOMY -- SPECIATION -- IDENTIFYING AND CATALOGING SPECIES -- GLOSSARY -- FOR FURTHER READING -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.