Levinton J.S. Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution

Second Edition,Cambridge University Press,2001. — 634 p. — ISBN: 0521005507
This expanded and updated second edition offers a comprehensive look at macroevolution and its underpinnings, with a primary emphasis on animal evolution. From a Neodarwinian point of view, the book integrates evolutionary processes at all levels to explain the diversity of animal life.
It examines a wide range of topics including genetics, speciation, development, evolution, constructional and functional aspects of form, fossil lineages, and systematics, and --in a major new chapter--takes a hard look at the Cambrian explosion. The author delves into the age of molecular science and integrates important recent contributions made to our understanding of evolution.Preface to the First Edition pageMacroevolution: The Problem and the Field
Genealogy, Systematics, and Macroevolution
Genetics, Speciation, and Transspecific Evolution
Development and Evolution
The Constructional and Functional Aspects of Form
Patterns of Morphological Change in Fossil Lineages
Patterns of Diversity, Origination, and Extinction
A Cambrian Explosion?
Coda: Ten Theses
Glossary of Macroevolution