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Evolution : the triumph of an idea / Carl Zimmer ; introduction by Stephen Jay Gould ; foreword by Richard Hutton.

Summary:

This dazzling companion volume to one the most important series in PBS history tells the compelling story of the theory of evolution -- from Darwin to twenty-first-century science.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0060199067
  • ISBN: 9780060199067
  • Physical Description: xx, 364 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, [2001]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Map of "Darwin's voyage on the Beagle, 1831-1836" on endpapers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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. 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. Gossiping ape : the social roots of human evolution -- 12. Modern life, 50,000 B.C. : the dawn of us -- 13. What about God?
Subject:
Evolution (Biology) > History.

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