This volume of the main Life text is perfect for shorter courses which focus on evolution and ecology. Life is simply the textbook for showing students howbiology works, offering an engaging and coherent presentation of the fundamentals through the landmark experiments that revealed them. This 9th edition also introduces several innovations. INDICE: Studying Life - PART I: THE PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF EVOLUTION - Evidence and Mechanisms of Evolution - Reconstructing and Using Phylogenies - Species and their Formation - Evolution of Genes and Genomes - The History of Life on Earth - PART II: THE EVOLUTION OF DIVERSITY - Bacteria and Archaea: The Prokaryotic Domains - The Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes - Plants without Seeds: From Water to Land - The Evolution of Seed Plants - Fungi: Recyclers, Pathogens, Parasites, and Plant Partners - Animal Origins and the Evolution of Body Plans - Protostome Animals - Deuterostome Animals - PART II: ECOLOGY - Ecology and the Distribution of Life - Population Ecology - Interaction Ecology - Community Ecology - Ecosystems and Global Ecology - Conservation Biology
- ISBN: 978-1-4292-4644-6
- Editorial: W.H. Freeman
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 350
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés