Evolution: Making Sense of Life — Second Edition

A W.H. Freeman loose-leaf second edition in very good condition, presented in a University of Alberta branded red ring binder with gilt crest and lettering. Pages are clean, bright, and free of any marks, stamps, highlights, or annotations throughout. Binder is solid and clean with no damage to the rings, spine, or covers. A clean, well-preserved copy throughout. Published by W.H. Freeman and Company (Macmillan Learning), New York, in 2016, this second edition, first printing of Evolution: Making Sense of Life is a comprehensive undergraduate textbook written by Carl Zimmer — two-time winner of the National Academies Communication Award, three-time winner of the AAAS Science Journalism Award, Stephen Jay Gould Prize recipient, New York Times columnist, and professor adjunct at Yale University — and Douglas J. Emlen, award-winning evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Montana. The textbook covers the full breadth of modern evolutionary biology across twenty-five chapters, from the molecular mechanisms of genetic change through natural selection, sexual selection, adaptation, coevolution, speciation, macroevolution, phylogenetics, and the deep history of life on Earth, with extensive case studies drawn from current research. The cover features the Madagascar orchid Angraecum sesquipedale, whose extraordinarily deep nectary led Darwin to predict in 1862 that a moth with an equally long proboscis must exist to pollinate it — a prediction confirmed twenty years after his death, when the subspecies was named praedicta in his honour. As the copyright page notes, this is coevolution made visible. Illustrated throughout in full colour. Presented in a University of Alberta branded red ring binder.