Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful

by George R. McGhee

Book Overview

An analysis of convergent evolution from molecules to ecosystems, demonstrating the limited number of evolutionary pathways available to life.

Charles Darwin famously concluded On the Origin of Species with a vision of "endless forms most beautiful" continually evolving. More than 150 years later many evolutionary biologists see not endless forms but the same, or very similar, forms evolving repeatedly in many independent species lineages...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262539098
• ISBN13: 9780262539098
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher