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Adding to previous answers. For basic textbooks I've been happy with (earlier editions of): Evolution, Futuyma Genetics: From Genes to Genomes, Hartwell et al. EDIT: I should also mention the free pdf book Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics by Joe Felsenstein, with latest update from 2013. He uses it for a course in population gentics. So far, I have only ...

Books on my shelf right now (I'm an evolutionary genetics grad student)... Entry level: Evolution - Mark Ridley (not Matt Ridley) A primer of ecological genetics - Connor & Hartl Intermediate: Elements of evolutionary genetics - Charlesworth & Charlesworth Advanced: Principles of Population genetics - Hartl & Clark Introduction to ...

I don't have access to Provine's book, and I can't describe the details of the hooded rat experiments, but here is an attempt to explain the importance of the work. Darwin published “Origin of Species” in 1859. He proposed that modern species were all descended from ancestral species, and that evolution proceeded by natural selection. He believed that ...