The theory of evolution
All living plants and animals, including man, are the modified descendants of one or a few simple living things. A hundred years ago Darwin and Wallace in their theory of natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, explained how evolution could have happened, in terms of processes known to take place today. In this book John Maynard Smith describes how their theory has been confirmed, but at the same time transformed, by recent research, and in particular by the discovery of the laws of inheritance
Print Book, English, 1993
Canto ed View all formats and editions
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1993
xxii 354 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
9780521451284, 0521451280
27676642
Introduction to the Canto edition
Adaptation
Theory of natural selection
Heredity
Weismann, Lamarck, and the central dogma
Molecular evolution
Origin and early evolution of life
Structure of chromosomes and the control of gene action
Variation
Artificial selection: some experiments with fruitflies
Natural selection in wild populations
Protein polymorphism
Altruism, social behaviour, and sex
What are species?
Origins of species
What keeps species distinct?
Genetics of species differences
Fossil evidence
Evolution and development
Evolution and history