'"Impressive compendium of essays ... I encourage evolutionary biologists of all stripes to read it." --BioScience' - Description Contents PART I: Principles of Evolutionary Genetics 1. From Mendel to Molecules: A Brief History of Evolutionary Genetics , Michael R. Dietrich 2. Genetic Variation , Marta L. Wayne and Michael M. Miyamota 3. Mutation , David Houle and Alexey Kondrashov 4. Natural Selection , Michael J. Wade 5. Stochastic Processes in Evolution , John H. Gillespie 6. Genetics and Evolution in Structured Populations , Charles J. Goodnight PART II: Molecular Evolution 7. Detecting Selection at the Molecular Level , Michael W. Nachman 8. Rates of Molecular Evolution , Francisco Rodriguez-Trelles, Rosa Tarrio and Francisco J. Ayala 9. Weak Selection on Noncoding Gene Features , Ying Chen and Wolfgang Stephan 10. Evolution of Eukaryotic Genome Structure , Dmitri Petrov and Jonathan F. Wendel 11. New Genes, New Functions: Gene Family Evolution and Phylogenetics , Joe Thornton 12. Gene Genealogies , Noah A. Rosenberg PART III: From Genotype to Phenotype 13. Gene Function and Molecular Evolution , Simon C. Lovell 14. Evolution of Multidomain Proteins , Laszlo Patthy 15. Evolutionary Developmental Biology , David L. Stern 16. Canalization , Mark L. Siegal and Aviv Bergman 17. Evolutionary Epigenetics , Eva Jablonka & Marion J. Lamb PART IV: Quantitative Genetics and Selection 18. Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics , Derek A. Roff