In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote "I think" and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree. Each branch of Darwin's tree of life told a story of survival and adaptation - adaptation of animals and plants not just to the environment but also to life with other living things.

This book is aimed at students taking courses on evolution in universities and colleges. Its approach and its structure are very different from previously-published evolution texts. The core theme in this book is how evolution works by changing the course of embryonic and post-embryonic development.

Examines the implications of evolutionary theory and evolutionary psychology for some of the most important philosophical questions.

This volume of the main Life text is perfect for shorter courses which focus on evolution and ecology. Life is simply the textbook for showing students how biology works, offering an engaging and coherent presentation of the fundamentals through the landmark experiments that revealed them. This 9th edition also introduces several innovations.

Offers fresh perspectives on the threat posed by humanity's immense biological success and on the resources human beings have for altering their destructive path. Focusing on the process of natural selection, this title explores the inordinate and dangerous rise of humankind.

Opens with a series of major essays dealing with the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology, with major empirical and theoretical questions in the science, from speciation to adaptation, from paleontology to evolutionary development (evo devo), and concludes with essays on the social and political significance of evolutionary biology.

Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their natural habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.

Presents an account of how the living world became diverse and how humans are destroying that diversity. This book traces the processes that create different species in bursts of adaptive radiation, and shows the cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution and diminished global diversity over the past 600 million years.