The ''Encyclopedia of Evolution'' is a print encyclopedia of
evolutionary biology
Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes ( natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life ...
edited by
Mark Pagel
Mark David Pagel FRS (born 5 June 1954 in Seattle, Washington) is an evolutionary biologist and professor. He heads the Evolutionary Biology Group at the University of Reading. He is known for comparative studies in evolutionary biology. In ...
and published in 2002 by
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...
.
It consists of 370 original articles written by leading experts including
Richard Dawkins,
Stephen Jay Gould, and
Jane Goodall
Dame Jane Morris Goodall (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Seen as the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best kn ...
, and was selected as one of the Outstanding Reference Sources of 2003 by American Libraries.
Outstanding Reference Sources 2003
Bloom, Vicki D., American Libraries, May 2003, p.45
A similar book, the '' Cambridge Encyclopedia of Evolution'' is edited by Steve Jones.
References
External links
Oxford University Press: U.S. General Catalog
LCCN record
of Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library ...
Evolutionary biology literature
Encyclopedias of science
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