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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evolutionary biology is a sub-field of biology concerned with the origin and descent of species, as well as their change, multiplication, and diversity over time. One who studies evolutionary biology is known as an evolutionary biologist. Evolutionary biology is an interdisciplinary field because it includes scientists from a wide range of both field and lab oriented disciplines. For example, it generally includes scientists who may have a specialist training in particular organisms such as mammalogy, ornithology, or herpetology, but use those organisms as case studies to answer general questions in evolution. It also generally includes paleontologists and geologists who use fossils to answer questions about the tempo and mode of evolution, as well as theoreticians in areas such as population genetics and evolutionary psychology. In the 1990s developmental biology made a re-entry into evolutionary biology from its initial exclusion from the modern synthesis through the study of evolutionary developmental biology.

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Evolution
Nicholas H. Barton, Derek E. G. Briggs, Jonathan A. Eisen, David B. Goldstein, Nipam H. Patel
Hardcover - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (Jun 2007) - 833 Pages
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Evolutionary Biology, Third Edition
Douglas J. Futuyma
Paperback - Sinauer Associates, Inc. (Mar 2006) - 763 Pages
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Mathematical Population Genetics
Warren J. Ewens
Hardcover - Springer (Jan 2004) - 417 Pages
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Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, 3rd Edition (Bradford Books)
Paperback - The MIT Press (Sep 2006) - 640 Pages
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The Theoretical Biologist's Toolbox: Quantitative Methods for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Marc Mangel
Paperback - Cambridge University Press (Aug 2006) - 390 Pages
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Foundations of Complex-system Theories: In Economics, Evolutionary Biology, and Statistical Physics
Sunny Y. Auyang, Sunny A. Auyang
Paperback - Cambridge University Press (Aug 1999) - 416 Pages
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Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphological Data (Smithsonian Series in Comparative Evolutionary Biology) (Smithsonian Series in Comparative Evolutionary Biology)
Wiens Jj
Paperback - Smithsonian (Jun 2000) - 232 Pages
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Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology
Annalisa Berta, James L. Sumich, Kit M. Kovacs
Hardcover - Academic Press (Oct 2005) - 547 Pages
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Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology
Massimo Pigliucci, Jonathan Kaplan
Paperback - University Of Chicago Press (Nov 2006) - 236 Pages
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The Evolutionary Biology of Plants
Karl J. Niklas
Paperback - University Of Chicago Press (Jun 1997) - 470 Pages
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Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
William B. Provine
Paperback - University Of Chicago Press (Apr 1989) - 562 Pages
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The Evolution of Darwinism: Selection, Adaptation and Progress in Evolutionary Biology
Timothy Shanahan
Paperback - Cambridge University Press (Mar 2004) - 352 Pages
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Life's Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry, 1860-1940 (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
Peter J. Bowler
Paperback - University Of Chicago Press (May 1998) - 540 Pages
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Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology
Michael Ruse
Hardcover - Harvard University Press (Jan 1997) - 640 Pages
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