Evolutionary Biology, Hardcover by Hecht, Max K. (EDT), ISBN 0306456745, ISBN-13 9780306456749, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

Contributions from evolutionary biologists and paleobiologists explore such topics as: Adaptation in Drosophila and the role of Cytochrome P450s; population genetics and species conservation of the cheetah; germ-layer theory; asymmetry in the mammalian skeleton, genetic diversity of marine fish; the phenomenon of industrial melanism; and variation in lizard cranial kinesis. Other chapters focus on such issues as overdominance as it relates to higher mutation rate estimates and the use of molecular clocks in determining rates of nucleotide substitution in higher plants. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.