Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: The Processes of Evolution
3: The Evidence for Evolution: Similarities and Differences Between Organisms
4: The Evidence for Evolution: Patterns in Time and Space
5: Adaptation and Natural Selection
6: The Formation and Divergence of Species
7: Some Difficult Problems
Further Reading

About the Author

Brian Charlesworth is Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, and President of the Society for the Study Evolution. His research is mainly in evolutionary genetics, applying classical and molecular genetics to the study of evolution and natural variation. He is author of Evolution in Age-Structured Populations (CUP, 2nd edn. 1994) Deborah Charlesworth is Professor in the ICABP at
Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the evolution of plant breeding systems, including how they avoid inbreeding, and work on sex chromosomes and self-incompatibility.

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