Summary

In his groundbreaking book Natural Selection, Charles Darwin explained his theory that evolution is driven by adaptation of species to their environmental surroundings. From the tiniest microbe to the largest whale, all organisms have changed over vast expanses of time due to the forces of natural selection. This new title in the Science Foundations series provides an overview of the processes and causes that drive natural selection and the principles that explain how it operates, using numerous diverse organisms as examples. Natural Selection promotes a solid understanding of how organisms change over the course of generations and how current biodiversity came to be.

Specifications

Full-color photographs and illustrations. Sidebars. Further reading. Web sites. References. Glossary. Index.

About the Author(s)

J. Phil Gibson is an associate professor in the Department of Botany and Microbiology and the Department of Zoology at the University of Oklahoma. He has a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University and a master’s degree from the University of Georgia, both in botany, and a Ph.D. in environmental population and organismic biology from the University of Colorado.

Terri R. Gibson holds a bachelor’s degree in zoology from the University of Georgia. She has worked as a scientific illustrator and as a research assistant studying plant evolution, plant population genetics, plant morphology, E. coli, and HIV.