Table of Contents

1: Simple selection
2: The genetic and ecological context of selection
3: Natural selection in closed asexual populations
4: Prometheus Unbound: realeasing the constraints on natural selection
5: Selection in multicellular organisms
6: Artificial selection
7: Natural selection in open populations
8: Adaptive radiation: diversity and specialization
9: Autoselection: selfish genetic elements
10: Social selection
11: Coevolution
12: Sexual selection
13: Speciation
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About the Author

Graham Bell is a professor of biology at McGill University in Montreal. He has published many articles on ecology and evolution, and three books: the Masterpiece of Nature (1982), Sex and Death in Protozoa (1988) and Selection (1996).

Reviews

"An outstanding book belonging on every science shelf." CHOICE, 2008, Vol. 45 No. 11