Highlighting an emphasis on evolution and scientific inquiry, this book focuses on the organizing power of evolution combined with an integration of the importance of cellular, molecular biology and genomics to offer our readers a text that is student friendly and current.[...]
Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single most important source of biological diversity in the living world. One of the best-studied examples involves Caribbean "Anolis[...]