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The story of evolution in 25 discoveries : the evidence and the people who found it /
"The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity's place in the universe into necessary perspective. Despite a history of controversy, the evidence for evolution continues to accumulate as a result of many separate strands of incredible scien...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: In the beginning: everything evolves, and Earth is very old
- 1. Everything evolves and changes: discovery of the evolving universe
- 2. The abyss of time: the immense age of the Earth
- Part II: Darwin's evidence for evolution
- 3. Evolution in action: transformation in real time
- 4. Our common body plan: homology
- 5. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny: evidence in embryos
- 6. The sinking of Noah's ark: biogeography
- 7. The branching tree of life: phylogeny
- 8. The case of the cruel wasps: nature is not moral
- 9. Jury-rigged contrivances: nature is not optimally designed
- Part III: Great transitions in the history of life
- 10. A whale of a tale: vestigial organs and walking whales
- 11. Invasion of the land: amphibians crawl out of the water
- 12. Missing links found: macroevolution and transitional fossils
- 13. Birds with teeth: the dinosaurs among us
- 14. A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! The evolution of equines
- 15. How the giraffe got its neck: Lamarck, Darwin, and the left recurrent laryngeal nerve
- 16. How the elephant got its trunk: the evolution of the proboscideans
- Part IV: Eyes and genes
- 17. A warm little pond: how did life originate?
- 18. Genetic junkyard: most of our DNA is useless
- 19. Legs on their heads: homeotic mutants and evo-devo
- 20. The eyes have it: the evolution of photoreception
- Part V: Humans and evolution
- 21. A tinkerer, not an engineer: are humans well designed?
- 22. The third chimpanzee: are we really 99 percent the same?
- 23. The ape's reflection: are humans really that different from other animals?
- 24. Bones of our ancestors: the human fossil record
- 25. The once and future human: are humans still evolving?
- Index.