| Evolution: An Introduction | 
 enlarge | Authors: Stephen C. Stearns, Rolf Hoekstra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 271673
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0198549687
Dewey Decimal Number: 576.8
EAN: 9780198549680
ASIN: 0198549687
Publication Date: January 20, 2000
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 Good but with gaps April 21, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A well-written, straightforward text that serves as a good generalintroduction to most of the topics discussed on my course (introduction toevolution for medical students). Not strong on human evolution, so not atop recommendation (see Freeman & Herron)
 Excellent state of the art of evolutionary biology April 3, 2000
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Stearns and Hoekstra have written an extremely useful and much needed book. Beginning with an appetizing set of examples they proceed first with a couple of particularly thoughtful chapters on "The Nature of Evolution" and "Adaptive evolution" and then cover more or less all of the important fields of evolutionary biology: genetic variation, evolution of sex, life history and history of life theories, sexual selection, molecular methods, speciation and comparative methods. They are conspicuously short on human evolution, but if you add a suitable text on that particular field you have a superb overview of current evolutionary biology: not more detailed than necessary, not more complicated tharn doing justice to the intricacies of reseach in this field straddling experimental and historical sciences, very well written and handsomely produced. In brief, a book which Darwin would have loved, if he had happened to read it for amusement...It is to be greatly recommended as an introduction to a deeper understanding of life on earth.After all evolution is what makes biology so much more exciting and relevant than the other sciences.
The content is excellent and very well written February 22, 2000
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I especially love that opening part about the wierd and wonderful mating of the Australian red-back spider. It has a very good balance of concepts and ideas and examples, something lacking in other texts. I like the summary of the history of evolution at the back of the 1st chapter, interesting stuff. The margin notes are excellent and really do help you to picked out the relevant parts of the texts.
Highly recommended February 17, 2000
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
... I have never been very excited by the other Evolution textbooks around and so this one has taken me by surprise. It is just the right size, not too heavy but seems to cover every thing I need. Even better it is written in a lively and easy-to-understand way with nice drawings of animals. There are lots of interesting facts which you can't help but remember - for example I started with systematics and found that whales are most closely related to ungulates (pigs, deer etc.) - isn't that bizarre! I recommend it very highly to any other students as it has certainly helped me.
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