Environmental biology : the conditions of life : environmental selection, extinction, creation, adaptation and overpopulation / Terry Hilleman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-369) and index.

Overview -- Retrospective -- Beyond ancient history -- The atmosphere -- Milankovitch cycle(s) -- Climate -- Major environmental extinction events -- Extinction events initiate change -- Chicken little was right -- Fire down below -- Constant extinction -- Ecological succession -- Extinction event significance -- Environmental extinction and environmental creation -- Environmental creation significance -- The rest of the story -- Environmentally and genetically determined evolution -- Alone -- Genetic perspective -- Genotype and phenotype -- Alleles -- Mutation -- Phenotype and environment -- Genetic constraint -- Genetic variation -- Environmental adaptation -- A foundation of modern evolutionary biology -- Difficulties on theory -- Environmentally-determined evolution? -- Macroevolution and microevolution -- Philosophy of genetic mechanisms -- Biochemistry of genetic mechanisms -- Primary production -- Respiration -- Ecosystem energy flow -- Common ground -- Biodiversity -- Habitat diversity -- Overpopulation -- Humanity -- Do the math -- The ongoing losses -- A choice -- Epilogue -- Environment and evolution questions -- Human population and resource questions.