Evolution

Features

New to this edition

• Genomic perspectives on evolution are strengthened throughout
• The content has a stronger focus on human evolution: an entirely new chapter on the topic (Chapter 21, The Evolutionary Story of Homo sapiens), and new examples throughout the book
• Many chapters have been rewritten from the ground up
• The book has been entirely reillustrated in a clean, contemporary style that enhances the content
• A new Appendix, A Statistics Primer, introduces the concept of a probability distribution, reviews how statistics are used to describe populations, looks at how we estimate quantities, and discusses how hypotheses are tested. It ends with a brief overview of two major frameworks of statistical analysis: likelihood and Bayesian inference. Math is kept to a minimum.

The Evolution Companion Website features review and study tools to help students master the material presented in the textbook. Access to the site is free of charge, and requires no access code. (Instructor registration is required in order for students to access the quizzes.) The site includes the following resources:

• Chapter Outlines and Summaries: Concise overviews of the important topics covered in each chapter.
• Data Analysis Exercises: Expanded for the third edition, these inquiry-based exercises involve students in working with data and analyzing methods and conclusions from published papers.
• Simulation Exercises: Interactive modules that allow students to explore many of the dynamic processes of evolution, and answer questions based on the results they observe.
• Online Quizzes: Quizzes that cover all the major concepts introduced in each chapter. These quizzes are assignable by the instructor.
• Flashcards & Key Terms: A great way for students to learn and review the key terminology introduced in each chapter.
• The complete Glossary

The Evolution Instructor's Resource Library offers a variety of resources to aid instructors in course planning, lecture development, and student assessment, including:

• Textbook Figures and Tables: All the figures (including photographs) and tables from the textbook are provided as JPEGs (both high- and low-resolution), reformatted and relabeled for optimal readability when projected.
• PowerPoint Presentations: For each chapter, all of the chapter's figures and tables are provided in a ready-to-use PowerPoint presentation, making it easy to quickly insert figures into your own lecture presentations.
• Answers to the textbook end-of-chapter Problems and Discussion Topics
• Quiz Questions from the Companion Website
• Data Analysis and Simulation Exercises from the Companion Website, with answers