Evolution : the triumph of an idea / Carl Zimmer ; introduction by Stephen Jay Gould ; foreword by Richard Hutton.
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]
- Copyright: ©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?
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- Subject:
- Evolution (Biology) > History.
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- 8 of 9 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 576.8 ZIM (Text) | 36015000686010 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | 576.809 Zim (Text) | 101091000595177 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Alexander Main Library | 576.8 Zimmer (Text) | 34269000630583 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Angier Public Library | 576.809 Zim (Text) | 33632001984229 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Leland Library | 576.809 ZIM (Text) | 31423620829496 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 07/27/2026 |
| Macon County Public Library | 576.8 Z (Text) | 39493105111399 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Margaret and James Harper, Jr. Library | 576.809 ZIM (Text) | 31421620877887 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| NC Museum of Natural Sciences Library | QH361 .Z48 2001 (Text) | 31879000205567 | General Collection | Available | - |
| Pack Memorial Library | 576.809 ZIM (Text) | 0020504714716 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
