01988nam a22002417a 450000500170000000800410001702000200005804000090007804100080008708200210009510000160011624500280013226000830016030000310024336500560027444000270033052012920035765000140164965000150166365000200167865000300169870000180172820220314100600.0220314b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a 978-1468415193  cAloy  aeng  223a575.01bCALE  aPeter Calow  aEvolutionary Principles  aSpringer Science Business Media LLCbSpringer Science Business Media LLCc2020  aviii,108 p.bPBc23x16 cm.  2Zoologya6321b556.00c₹d695.00e20%f08-03-2022  aTertiary Level Biology  aThe last few years have seen a number of new books on evolutionary biology. However most of these are either large or specialized. This is an attempt to produce a thin, general version for undergraduate use. Thinness, of course, demands selectivity, and the aim has been to concentrate on the principles of the subject rather than on the details-principles, that is, of both theory and practice. Thinness also sometimes means that a certain level of knowledge is assumed in the readership, but I hope that this is not the case here, and my intention has certainly been to produce something that is as intelligible to the uninitiated as it is to the well-informed. As for the bibliography, I refer, where possible, to reviews rather than primary sources, so a citation should not be taken to imply any sort of precedence. In developing the theme, I have adopted a loosely historical approach, not only because I believe that this makes for more interesting reading but also because the subject, like the subject it addresses, has evolved under the critical eye of a selective process. Problems have been perceived, hypotheses have been formulated to explain them, facts have been amassed to test the hypotheses, more problems have been perceived, more hypotheses formu­ lated, and so on.  aEvolution  aAdaptation  aMacro Evolution  aEvolution and Development  aCALOW (Peter)