The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited

by Brett Calcott

Drawing on recent advances in evolutionary biology, prominent scholars return to the question posed in a pathbreaking book: how evolution itself evolved.

In 1995, John Maynard Smith and E rs Szathm ry published their influential book The Major Transitions in Evolution. The "transitions" that Maynard Smith and Szathm ry chose to describe all constituted major changes in the kinds of organisms that existed but, most important, these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262015242
• ISBN13: 9780262015240
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher