Once we all had gills : growing up evolutionist in an evolving world /
"In this book, Rudolf A. Raff reaches out to the scientifically queasy, using his life story and his growth as a scientist to illustrate why science matters, especially at a time when many Americans are both suspicious of science and hostile to scientific ways of thinking. Noting that science h...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, IN :
Indiana University Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Becoming a naturalist. Space-time
- Layers of the past
- An age of dinosaurs
- A school a minute
- In the natural world
- Transformations
- Going south
- Learning to love the bomb
- On the road to Chiapas
- The masked messenger
- pt. 2. Finding evolution, founding evo-devo. Evolution as science
- Dining with Darwin
- Life with sea urchins
- Embryos evolving
- Evolution in the Tasman Sea
- An alternate present
- Biology meets fossils
- pt. 3. Strange new world. Darwin's day in court
- Creationist makeovers
- Evolution matters.