The causes of evolution / by J.B.S. Haldane, F.R.S. ; with a new introduction and afterword by Egbert G. Leigh, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson), 1892-1964, author.

Leigh, Egbert Giles, Jr., 1940- author of introduction, author of afterward.

Contributor:

Princeton University Press, publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Princeton science library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution (Biology).

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

xxvi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Second printing, with corrections.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1993, 1990.

Summary:

J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964), one of the founders of the science of population genetics, was also one of the greatest practitioners of the art of explaining science to the layperson. Haldane was a superb story-teller, as his essays and his children's books attest. In The Causes of Evolution he not only helped to marry the new science of genetics to the older one of evolutionary theory but also provided an accessible introduction to the genetical basis of evolution by natural selection. Egbert Leigh's new introduction to this classic work places it in the context of the ongoing study of evolution. Describing Haldane's refusal to be confined by a "System" as a "light-hearted" one, Leigh points out that we are now finding that "Haldane's questions are the appropriate next stage in learning how adaptation can evolve. We are now ready to reap the benefit of the fact that Haldane was a free man in the sense that really matters."

Contents:

Preface / by J.B.S. Haldane

Preface to the 1990 edition / by Egbert G. Leigh, Jr.

Introduction / by Egbert G. Leigh, Jr.

Introduction

Variation within a species

The genetical analysis of interspecific differences

Natural selection

What is fitness?

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliographical references

Afterword / by Egbert G. Leigh, Jr.

Index to the text.

Notes:

Originally published: London ; New York : Longmans, Green, 1932. With new introduction and afterword. (First Princeton science library printing, 1990).

"Copyright © by J. B. S. Haldane. Preface and Afterword for the Princeton Science Library edition ©1990 by Princeton University Press. Second printing, with corrections, 1993"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

ISBN:

9780691024424

0691024421

OCLC:

33158860