Charles Darwin and Selection as a Cause of Adaptive Evolution 1837-1859

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Carl Jay Bajema Carl Jay Bajema is professor of biology at Grand Valley State College, Allendale, MI 49401. He teaches introductory biology, human ecology, human genetics, and human sexuality in the Department *x *l of Biology, and a course on / the Darwinian revolution in the History of Science program. Bajema eamed a Ph.D. in zoology from Michigan State Univ. in 1963. Bajema has served as Senior Population Council Fellow in demography and population genetics at the Uiiiv. of Chicago (1966-1967); as research associate in population studies at Harvard Univ. (1967-1972); as research associate in biology at the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara (1974); and most recently as visiting professor of anthropology at Harvard Univ. (1974-1975). His research interests have concentrated on estimating the direction and intensity of natural selection especially in human behavior and on the history of ideas on evolution. He is coauthor of an introductory college biology textbook. Bajema has edited four volumes of benchmark papers.