The National Research Council issued a report in 2009 that heavily criticized the forensic
sciences. The report made several recommendations that if addressed would allow the …

What determines the particular combinations of species found in biological communities, the
number of those species, and their relative abundance? These questions are of perennial …

Adaptive radiation is the evolution of diversity within a rapidly multiplying lineage. It can
cause a single ancestral species to differentiate into an impressively vast array of species …

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Second Edition Page 3 Page 4 CRC Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an …

Finally, an eBook version of this now classic textbook has become available. Largely based
on the 6th edition, published in 2000, this version is competitively priced. Written by well …

This textbook provides a general overview of animal behavior in an evolutionary context.
Some of the topics covered in the chapters include the proximate and ultimate causes of bird …

We challenge Diamond's (1975) idea that island species distributions are determined
predominantly by competitions canonized by his" assembly rules." We show that every …

Charles Darwin's experiences in the Galápagos Islands in 1835 helped to guide his
thoughts toward a revolutionary theory: that species were not fixed but diversified from their …

After his famous visit to the Galápagos Islands, Darwin speculated that" one might fancy that,
from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and …

Renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant have produced landmark
studies of the Galápagos finches first made famous by Charles Darwin. In How and Why …