PDF Evolution: Making Sense of Life 2nd Edition by Carl Zimmer, Emlen Douglas J. Get this from a library! Evolution: making sense of life. [Carl Zimmer; Douglas John Emlen] -- 'Science writer Carl Zimmer and evolutionary biologist Douglas Emlen have teamed up to write a textbook intended for biology majors that will inspire students while delivering a solid foundation in.

Science writer Carl Zimmer and evolutionary biologist Douglas Emlen have teamed up to write a textbook intended for biology majors that will inspire students while delivering a solid foundation in evolutionary biology. Zimmer brings the same story-telling skills he displayed in The Tangled Bank, his 2009 non-majors textbook that the Quarterly Review of Biology called 'spec Science writer Carl Zimmer and evolutionary biologist Douglas Emlen have teamed up to write a textbook intended for biology majors that will inspire students while delivering a solid foundation in evolutionary biology. Zimmer brings the same story-telling skills he displayed in The Tangled Bank, his 2009 non-majors textbook that the Quarterly Review of Biology called 'spectacularly successful.'

Emlen, an award-winning evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, has infused Evolution: Making Sense of Life with the technical rigor and conceptual depth that today's biology majors require. Students will learn the fundamental concepts of evolutionary theory, such as natural selection, genetic drift, phylogeny, and coevolution. Evolution: Making Sense of Life also drives home the relevance of evolution for disciplines ranging from conservation biology to medicine. With riveting stories about evolutionary biologists at work everywhere from the Arctic to tropical rain forests to hospital wards, the book is a reading adventure designed to grab the imagination of the students, showing them exactly why it is that evolution makes such brilliant sense of life. Read for USF's Organic Evolution lecture course. Keygen. To begin with, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The language was clear and concise, making the subject matter considerably more palatable to read than similar texts have in the past.

The accompanying images and graphs are good throughout, and helped me to build on my understanding of the material by offering numerous visual cues. That being said, the concision of the writing often reduced the subjects and terminology into ideas beyond full c Read for USF's Organic Evolution lecture course. To begin with, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The language was clear and concise, making the subject matter considerably more palatable to read than similar texts have in the past. The accompanying images and graphs are good throughout, and helped me to build on my understanding of the material by offering numerous visual cues.

Driver downloader license key crack. That being said, the concision of the writing often reduced the subjects and terminology into ideas beyond full comprehension, offering little or no contextual support, and requiring me to seek information from outside sources. This was especially true when completing the accompanying quizzes and study guides, which often focused on concepts poorly covered in the text, and were rife with errors of every design and order. This entire course was spent compensating for--and criticizing--what the text and accompanying materials lack. Though unconventional, the structure of the course, as it was forced by the limitations of the text, allowed for increased insight into many of the concepts surrounding evolutionary theory. In general, I like the direction Zimmer and Emlen took with this textbook. The concept is great--introducing university students to evolution through succinct, modern, and highly readable language--and it has the potential to be an excellent addition to the lexicon of the life sciences.

I do hope the authors recognize these shortcomings and produce more thorough editions in the future. Used for UCLA's LS1 class Zimmer dryly covers a lot of basic terminology in biology, which makes this a pretty average textbook. He includes a lot of specific anecdotes of animals to make his point and then adds a picture of the animal, which I thought was the best part of the book.