Reviews for Evolutionary innovations

The average rating for Evolutionary innovations based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-02-12 00:00:00 Richard Comer This textbook is by far one of the best books on evolutionary biology. It is designed for an undergraduate university course, but the author provides background and information that will allow a more general audience of interested readers to grasp the concepts. The author organizes the concepts well and builds upon them throughout the book. The text is accompanied by the usual features of a textbook, most notably, good figures and tables, separate boxes with more specialized info on particular topics, and notes on various aspects of things mentioned int he text. The book is comprehensive and touches upon virtually all aspects of evolutionary biology with great depth into the main topics. The author provides numerous examples and extensively explains concepts that I have seen other textbooks merely assume are understood. Graduate students in the life sciences will find this advanced textbook helpful and a necessary aide in their training. The only thing that this book really lacks is an update. Published in 1998, the book lacks info on recent molecular advances in genomics along with more recent advances across the entire discipline. However, the concepts, hypotheses, theories, and basic evidence provided are still just as valid as the day it was published.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-04-12 00:00:00 J C I found this book absolutely brilliant while I was in college - it makes some interesting points and has lots of great diagrams to get them across. Unfortunately, I can't think I'll ever have to refer to it again, and, to be honest, find that some of it goes over my head now - been out of the field for too long!!