Reflects the advances in the feild, including advances in understanding gene regulation by microRNAs, histones and epigenetic inheritance, and genomic analysis of mutations in human cancers. This book retains the structure and pedagogy of previous editions....

Presents a comprehensive treatment of contemporary evolutionary biology. This title addresses major themes - including the history of evolution, evolutionary processes, adaptation, and evolution as an explanatory framework - at levels of biological organization ranging from genomes to ecological com...