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Darwin's doubt : the explosive origin of animal life and the case for intelligent design / Stephen C. Meyer.

Meyer, Stephen C. (Author).

Summary:

Builds on the subject of intelligent design, taking readers one step further into the history of life and defending the theory as the best explanation for the origin of the Cambrian animals and the information needed to produce them.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062071477
  • ISBN: 9780062071484
  • Physical Description: xiii, 498 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some colored) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 454-480) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 1 Mystery of the Missing Fossils -- 1 Darwin's Nemesis 3 -- 2 Burgess Bestiary 26 -- 3 Soft Bodies and Hard Facts 50 -- 4 Not Missing Fossils? 77 -- 5 Genes Tell the Story? 98 -- 6 Animal Tree of Life 114 -- 7 Punk Eek! 136 -- Part 2 How to Build and Animal -- 8 Cambrian Information Explosion 155 -- 9 Combinatorial Inflation 169 -- 10 Origin of Genes and Proteins 185 -- 11 Assume a Gene 209 -- 12 Complex Adaptations and the Neo-Darwinian Math 230 -- 13 Origin of Body Plans 255 -- 14 Epigenetic Revolution 271 -- Part 3 After Darwin, What? -- 15 Post-Darwinian World and Self-Organization 291 -- 16 Other Psot-Neo-Darwinian Models 311 -- 17 Possibility of Intelligent Design 336 -- 18 Signs of Design in the Cambrian Explosion 353 -- 19 Rules of Science 382 -- 20 What's at Stake 404 -- Epilogue: Response to Critics of the First Edition of Darwin's Doubt 415.
Subject:
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Life > Origin.
Evolution (Biology)
Intelligent design (Teleology)

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