- Paperback: 394 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford (20 Jan 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198549687
- ISBN-13: 978-0198549680
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 18.8 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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This book exactly meets my needs as a general introductory text for students with different scientific and biological backgrounds ... The text provides and accessible, authoritative and readable account. This is an excellent text. (Steve Waite, University of Brighton )
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This book exactly meets my needs as a general introductory text for students with different scientific and biological backgrounds ... The text provides and accessible, authoritative and readable account. This is an excellent text. Steve Waite, University of Brighton
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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A well-written, straightforward text that serves as a good generalintroduction to most of the topics discussed on my course (introduction toevolution for medical students). Not strong on human evolution, so not atop recommendation (see Freeman & Herron)
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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... I have never been very excited by the other Evolution textbooks around and so this one has taken me by surprise. It is just the right size, not too heavy but seems to cover every thing I need. Even better it is written in a lively and easy-to-understand way with nice drawings of animals. There are lots of interesting facts which you can't help but remember - for example I started with systematics and found that whales are most closely related to ungulates (pigs, deer etc.) - isn't that bizarre! I recommend it very highly to any other students as it has certainly helped me.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Stearns and Hoekstra have written an extremely useful and much needed book. Beginning with an appetizing set of examples they proceed first with a couple of particularly thoughtful chapters on "The Nature of Evolution" and "Adaptive evolution" and then cover more or less all of the important fields of evolutionary biology: genetic variation, evolution of sex, life history and history of life theories, sexual selection, molecular methods, speciation and comparative methods. They are conspicuously short on human evolution, but if you add a suitable text on that particular field you have a superb overview of current evolutionary biology: not more detailed than necessary, not more complicated tharn doing justice to the intricacies of reseach in this field straddling experimental and historical sciences, very well written and handsomely produced. In brief, a book which Darwin would have loved, if he had happened to read it for amusement...It is to be greatly recommended as an introduction to a deeper understanding of life on earth.After all evolution is what makes biology so much more exciting and relevant than the other sciences.
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