The Prentice Hall Guide to Evaluating Online Resources with Research Navigator: Science

by melissa payton

• ISBN13: 9780131136748
• ISBN10: 0131136747
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: PRENTICE HALL

Summary

Gives students access to the most current information available via EBSCO's Content Select Academic Journal Database,The New York TimesSearch By Subject Archive, "Best of the Web" Link Library and information on the latest news and current events.

Table of Contents

Introduction

A Case for Evolutionary Thinking: Understanding HIV

The Evidence for Evolution

Darwinian Natural Selection

Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

Mutation and Genetic Variation

Mendelian Genetics in Populations I: Selection and Mutation as Mechanisms of Evolution

Mendelian Genetics in Populations II: Migration, Genetic Drift, and Nonrandom Mating

Evolution at Multiple Loci: Linkage, Sex, and Quantitative Genetics

Adaptation

Studying Adaptation: Evolutionary Analysis of Form and Function

Sexual Selection

Kin Selection and Social Behavior

Aging and Other Life History Characters

History of Life

Mechanisms of Speciation

Reconstructing Evolutionary Trees

The Origins of Life and Precambrian Evolution

The Cambrian Explosion and Beyond

Human Evolution

Current Researcha Sampler

Development and Evolution

Molecular Evolution

Evolution and Human Health

Glossary

Index

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