Essential readings in evolutionary biology / [Book] /
edited by Francisco J. Ayala and John C. Avise.
- xiii, 547 pages, 8 unumbered pages of plates ; 26 cm.
Traces scholarly thought from the nineteenth-century birth of evolutionary biology to the mapping of the human genome through forty-eight essays, arranged in chronological order, each preceded by a one-page essay that explains the significance of the chosen work.