Product Description
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 communities.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 14 reviews)

great product by H. Mac (Boston, MA USA)

5 Stars
September 29, 2009
Buyer easy to contact, flexible and helpful. Product received in good time and in great condition

Great by Gary A. Matthews

4 Stars
September 24, 2009
The book came a lot sooner than what i thought it would and it was in great condition.

Great seller by marija puric

5 Stars
August 15, 2009
I highly recomend this seller. The book i bought was brand new, and yet the price was in the range of used books. Delivery was very fast

Not what it could have been and not what it needs to be. by Ned

2 Stars
April 09, 2009
This is probably the fourth or fifth book I've used as a teaching assistant for a senior level course in evolutionary biology. And to be honest, I was very, very, disappointed with this book from a teaching perspective. I have two main issues with this book, organization of topics and depth of discussion. There's not a lot to say about the organization that can't be gleaned from the TOC. How do you discuss the geography of evolution and patterns of biodiversity prior to discussing mechanisms of speciation (let alone what a species is)? How do you effectively discuss phylogenetic trees without first discussing speciation and species concepts? Worse, how can you discuss molecular clocks prior to ANYTHING about molecular evolution? You can't. Futuyma's previous book was often criticized for being too in depth for undergraduates. I never understood that criticism since you can always tell your students what parts of which chapters to read. Regardless, this book goes drastically in the opposite direction. When a student wants to discuss limits to the molecular clock, don't expect the text to discuss mutational saturation (the term isn't in the index and I didn't find it anywhere in the text). This sort of omission is all too common and the discussion of most topics is overly superficial. I would recommend the newest Freeman and Herron Evolutionary Analysis over this text. F&H had some problems in earlier versions but many have been fixed. F&H also have the best figures around, for example they manage to present multivariate selection gradients in an approachable way! I didn't even know that was possible. They also provide really useful boxes for a wide variety of topics (e.g. algebraic treatments of mutation-selection balance or stable equilibria). I'm currently having to teach using Futuyma's book and routinely use F&H figures and make copies of their boxes for my students. Better yet, have your students find used copies of Futuyma's old text which was great.

i never got the book!!! by Veronica Ledesma (Newhall, Ca USA)

1 Stars
March 25, 2009
I purchased this book through this website but i never got the book. I had to drop the class that called for this textbook for the same reason. I have yet not received the book or a refund for the book that was never sent.

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