Rev. ed. of: Evolution / Monroe W. Strickberger. 3rd ed. c2000.

1. Historical framework, evolution as science: Before Darwin;
2. Darwin and natural selection;
3. Arguments and the evidence for evolution ;
4. Origins, the enormity of time: Origins of cosmic structures and chemical elements;
5. Origin of Earth;
6. Molecules, protocells and natural selection;
7. From molecules to life;
8. Origins of cells and the first organisms ;
9. Organic framework, genes cell and development: Cell division, Mendelian genetics, and sex determination;
10. Chromosomes, mutation, gene regulation and variation;
11. Species, phylogeny and classification;
12. Genes and phylogenetic relationships;
13. Genes, development and evolution ;
14. Organisms, the diversity of life: Evolution of plants and fungi;
15. Animals and their origin;
16. Evolution among the invertebrates;
17. Chordate and vertebrate origins;
18. From water to land to air, amphibians and amniotes;
19. Evolution of mammals;
20. Primate evolution and the human origins ;
21. Populations and speciation, changes within and between species: Populations, gene frequencies and equilibrium;
22. Changes to gene frequencies;
23. Structure and maintenance of populations;
24. From populations to species ;
25. Evolution and society, past, present and future, society and religion: Cultural and human-directed evolution;
26. Belief, religion and evolution ;
27. Glossary.