Table of Contents

• I. INTRODUCTION
• 1. A Case for Evolutionary Thinking: Understanding HIV
• 2. The Evidence for Evolution
• 3. Darwinian Natural Selection
• 4. Reconstructing Evolutionary Trees
• II. MECHANISMS OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE
• 5. Mutation and Genetic Variation
• 6. Mendelian Genetics in Populations I: Selection and Mutation as Mechanisms of Evolution
• 7. Mendelian Genetics in Populations II: Migration, Genetic Drift, and Nonrandom Mating
• 8. Evolution at Multiple Loci: Linkage and Sex
• 9. Evolution at Multiple Loci: Quantitative Genetics
• III. ADAPTATION
• 10. Studying Adaptation: Evolutionary Analysis of Form and Function
• 11. Sexual Selection
• 12. Kin Selection and Social Behavior
• 13. Aging and Other Life History Characters
• 14. Evolution and Human Health
• 15. Phylogenomics and the Molecular Basis of Adaptation
• IV. THE HISTORY OF LIFE
• 16. Mechanisms of Speciation
• 17. The Origins of Life and Precambrian Evolution
• 18. The Cambrian Explosion and Beyond
• 19. Development and Evolution
• 20. Human Evolution