Table of Contents

1: Evolution by natural selection
2: Models of populations
3: Evolution in diploid populations
4: The variability of natural populations
5: Evolution at more than one locus
6: Quantitative genetics
7: A model of phenotypic evolution
8: Finite and structured populations
9: Evolution in structured populations
10: The evolution of prokaryotes
11: The evolution of the eukaryotic genome
12: The evolution of genetic systems. I. Sex and recombination
13: The evolution of genetic systems. II. Some consequences of sex
14: Macroevolution
15: Reconstructing evolutionary history

Reviews

`'...well-established textbook...clearer than the first edition, and more up to date - though it is to the credit of the first edition that, ten years on, it has not dated very much at all...Maynard Smith has always been a consummate communicator, as well as a seminal thinker, and the second edition of Evolutionary Genetics is yet another testament to this rare combination of skills.''
Dylan Evans, Cell Biology International.
`'The first edition of this now well-established textbook provided the advanced undergraduate student with a clear and comprehensive introduction to those aspects of genetics that are vital to understanding evolution...a standard pedagogical work. The recent publication of a revised second edition should ensure that the book retains this position...Maynard Smith has always been a consummate communicator, as well as a seminal thinker, and the second edition
of Evolutionary Genetics is yet another testament to this rare combination of skills.''
Dylan Evans, Cell Biology International 1998, vol.22, No.4, 327.