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The fungi represent superb tools for the study of evolution 'in action'. This book is the first to bring together, in one volume, coverage of the rapidly growing consensus of knowledge and ideas concerning 'evolutionary biology' of the fungi in the widest sense. It draws not only upon the impetus given to the field by modern molecular approaches but on the wider technical and philosophical issues raised in the search for evolutionary pattern in fungal life styles, fungal populations, and at the phylogenetic level. This exciting and too long neglected field is one which should interest not only mycologists and evolutionary biologists but also interest those involved in the control, manipulation and commercial exploitation of fungi.