The third edition continues to bring riveting stories about evolutionary biologists at work across the globe.

Undergraduate Life Science and Biology students in all degree programmes from Conservation to Medicine.

1. The Whale and the Virus: How Scientists Study Evolution2. From Natural Philosophy to Darwin: A Brief History of Evolutionary Ideas3. What the Rocks Say: How Geology and Paleontology Reveal the History of Life4. The Tree of Life: How Biologists Use Phylogeny to Reconstruct the Deep Past5. Raw Material: Heritable Variation Among Individuals6. The Ways of Change: Drift and Selection7. Beyond Alleles: Quantitative Genetics and the Evolution of Phenotypes8. The History in Our Genes9. From Genes to Traits: The Evolution of Genetic Networks and Development10. Natural Selection: Empirical Studies in the Wild11. Sex: Causes and Consequences12. After Conception: The Evolution of Life History and Parental Care13. The Origin of Species14. Macroevolution: The Long Run15. Intimate Partnerships: How Species Adapt to Each Other16. Brains and Behavior17. Human Evolution: A New Kind of Ape18. Evolutionary Medicine