Reviews for Introduction to population biology & evolution

The average rating for Introduction to population biology & evolution based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-10-08 00:00:00 Jeff Myers A friend and I took Coursera's "Genetics and Evolution" MOOC and we used this textbook to get a better understanding of the material. It is authored by a giant in the field, who also happens to be a clear writer. It is hard to overstate how consequential such clarity is for communicating scientific concepts, suffices to say that both of the "recommended" textbooks are utterly incomprehensible. After genuinely suffering with Griffith's and Freeman's textbooks for the first two weeks, we discovered J.M. Smith by accident and the light bulb just went off. The contrast was so great, I started to think that environment actually matters :) Notes to self - 4-page handwritten summary of the course:

Review # 2 was written on 2020-01-03 00:00:00 Alex Horkay This was written as an MSc-level textbook by the late great John Maynard Smith, and is fairly mathematical/statistical.