Nature strange and beautiful : how living beings evolved and made the earth a home /

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A beautifully written exploration of how cooperation shaped life on earth, from its single-celled beginnings to complex human societies In this rich, wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert Leigh explores the results of billions of years of evolution at work. Leigh, who has spent five d...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Leigh, Egbert Giles, Jr., 1940- (Author)
Other Authors: Ziegler, Christian (Photographer)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Evolution (Biology)
Evolutionary genetics.
Human evolution.
Biodiversity.
Biotic communities.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Génétique évolutive.
Homme > Évolution.
Biodiversité.
Nature (Esthétique)
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
Instructional and educational works.
Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • How we approach the problem
  • Adaptation, individual and social
  • Life's common ancestry, and its origin
  • Diversification
  • Integrating diversity into community
  • Heredity, natural selection, and evolution
  • Organizing genes for adaptive evolution
  • The processes of evolution
  • The last transition
  • What have we learned, and what is still unknown?
  • Bibliographic essay.

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