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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Carl Zimmer |
| ISBN: | 0060199067 9780060199067 |
| OCLC Number: | 46359440 |
| Notes: | Map of "Darwin's voyage on the Beagle, 1831-1836" on endpapers. |
| Description: | xx, 364 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Slow victory : Darwin and the rise of Darwinism -- 1. Darwin and the Beagle -- 2. "Like confessing a murder" : the origin of Origin of species -- 3. Deep time discovered : putting dates to the history of life -- 4. Witnessing change : genes, natural selection, and evolution in action -- pt. 2. Creation and destruction -- 5. Rooting the tree of life : from life's dawn to the age of microbes -- 6. The accidental tool kit : chance and constraints in animal evolution -- 7. Extinction : how life ends and begins again -- pt. 3. Evolution's dance -- 8. Coevolution : weaving the web of life -- 9. Doctor Darwin : disease in the age of evolutionary medicine -- 10. Passion's logic : the evolution of sex -- pt. 4. Humanity's place in evolution and evolution's place in humanity -- 11. The gossiping ape : the social roots of human evolution -- 12. Modern life, 50,000 B.C. : the dawn of us -- 13. What about God? |
| Responsibility: | Carl Zimmer ; introduction by Stephen Jay Gould ; foreword by Richard Hutton. |
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Abstract:
Chronicles the development and spread of the theory of evolution, from Darwin's "Origin of Species" to the Human Genome Project and beyond, and explains how the process works.
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"[Evolution] is a richly illustrated and lucidly written companion book by Carl Zimmer."--Science Magazine
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