Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution

by Thomas N. Sherratt and David M. Wilkinson

Book Overview

Why do we age? Why cooperate? Why do so many species engage in sex? Why do the tropics have so many species? When did humans start to affect world climate?

This book provides an introduction to a range of fundamental questions that have taxed evolutionary biologists and ecologists for decades. Some of the phenomena discussed are, on first reflection, simply puzzling to understand from an evolutionary perspective, whilst others have direct implications
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199548617
• ISBN13: 9780199548613
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.3"