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Brief Contents<br />

Full Contents vii<br />

Preface xxii<br />

PART 1. INTRODUCTION 1<br />

1. The Rise of <strong>Evolution</strong>ary Biology 3<br />

2. Molecular and Mendelian Genetics 21<br />

3. The Evidence for <strong>Evolution</strong> 43<br />

4. Natural Selection and Variation 71<br />

PART 2. EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS 93<br />

5. The Theory of Natural Selection 95<br />

6. Random Events in Population Genetics 137<br />

7. Natural Selection and Random Drift in Molecular <strong>Evolution</strong> 155<br />

8. Two-locus and Multilocus Population Genetics 194<br />

9. Quantitative Genetics 222<br />

PART 3. ADAPTATION AND NATURAL SELECTION 253<br />

10. Adaptive Explanation 255<br />

11. The Units of Selection 292<br />

12. Adaptations in Sexual Reproduction 313<br />

PART 4. EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY 345<br />

13. Species Concepts and Intraspecific Variation 347<br />

14. Speciation 381<br />

15. The Reconstruction of Phylogeny 423<br />

16. Classification and <strong>Evolution</strong> 471<br />

17. <strong>Evolution</strong>ary Biogeography 492

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