For graduate students of biology, or other graduate or undergraduate students who are familiar with the basics of evolutionary biology and calculus, Rice explores the mechanics of evolution as illuminated by mathematics, and the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory. He hopes to convey the sense that evolutionary theory is not just a collection of separately constructed models, but is a unified subject in which all the major results are relate to a few basic biological and mathematical principles. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)