The Theory of Evolution

by John Maynard Smith , Foreword by Richard Dawkins

• ISBN13: 9780521451284
• ISBN10: 0521451280
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-07-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this book, John Maynard Smith describes how the theory of natural selection has been confirmed, but at the same time transformed, by recent research, and in particular by the discovery of the laws of inheritance.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
Foreword to the Canto Edition	xi
Preface	xvii
Preface to the Second Edition	xx
Preface to the Third Edition	xxi
Introduction to the Canto Edition	1	(25)
Adaptation	26	(12)
The Theory of Natural Selection	38	(15)
Heredity	53	(23)
Weismann, Lamarck, and the Central Dogma	76	(11)
Molecular Evolution	87	(22)
The Origin and Early Evolution of Life	109	(13)
The Structure of Chromosomes and the Control of Gene Action	122	(11)
Variation	133	(17)
Artificial Selection: Some Experiments with Fruitflies	150	(15)
Natural Selection in Wild Populations	165	(19)
Protein Polymorphism	184	(9)
Altruism, Social Behaviour, and Sex	193	(23)
What are Species?	216	(15)
The Origins of Species	231	(14)
What Keeps Species Distinct?	245	(12)
The Genetics of Species Differences	257	(19)
The Fossil Evidence	276	(34)
Evolution and Development	310	(17)
Evolution and History	327	(19)
Further Reading	346	(2)
Index	348