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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Raff, Rudolf A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.