“How do organisms (individuals, kin, or groups) interact, and how does natural selection work? These are the questions Wade attempts to answer. . . . The book is arranged chronologically, starting with his earliest work from the 1970s, and ends with a paper published in 2012. Wade incorporates some biographical details of his own life, usually at the start of a chapter, and then adds thorough descriptions of the work that he, his peers, and his graduate students have conducted. . . . The book is illustrated with very clear diagrams and a few black-and-white photographs. References from the text are arranged alphabetically in a separate section, and the book includes a detailed index. Recommended.”

L. T. Spencer, Plymouth State University | Choice

“Adaptation in Metapopulations is a multifaceted, deeply considered discussion of the current state of our understanding of how evolution proceeds within and among connected populations, including metapopulations and other kinds of groups. It is also a book on whether and how natural selection may act at multiple group levels, rather than solely at the level of selection among individuals. In that sense it evaluates our understanding of the conditions under which group selection could occur. Conceived and written in a unique way, it is simultaneously a synthesis of work on some major scientific questions, a summary of the history of that work, and a personal memoir on Wade’s intellectual trajectory as he probed those questions, all from a scientist who has spent a major part of his career near the center of these discussions, experiments, and controversies.”

John N. Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz, author of "Relentless Evolution"