"Provine's thorough and thoroughly admirable examination of Wright's life and influence, which is accompanied by a very useful collection of Wright's papers on

These volumes discuss evolutionary biology through the lense of population genetics.

"Wright's views about population genetics and evolution are so fundamental and so comprehensive that every serious student must examine these books firsthand. .

"To many evolutionary biologists, the central challenge of their discipline is to explain adaptation, the appearance of design in the living world. With the the

The 'Adaptive Landscape' has been a central concept in population genetics and evolutionary biology since this powerful metaphor was first formulated in 1932. T