Evolution : the triumph of an idea / Carl Zimmer ; introduction by Stephen Jay Gould ; foreword by Richard Hutton.
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TextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins, c2001Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 364 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN: 0060199067Subject(s): Evolution (Biology) -- HistoryDDC classification: 576.8/09 LOC classification: QH361 | .Z48 2001Online resources: Table of contents | Contributor biographical information
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Machine generated contents note: PART I SLOW VICTORY: DARWIN AND THE RISE OF DARWINISM -- T * Darwin and the Beagle 3 -- 2 * "Like Confessing a Murder": The Origin of Origin of Species 27 -- 3 * Deep Time Discovered: Putting Dates to the History of Life 57 -- 4 * Witnessing Change: Genes, Natural Selection, and Evolution in Action 73 -- PART 2 CREATION AND DESTRUCTION -- 5 * RootingtheTree ofLife: From Life's DawntotheAgeof Microbes 101 -- 6 TheAccidental Tool Kit: Chance and Constraints in Animal Evolution 117 -- 7 Extinction: How Life Ends and Begins Again 143 -- PART 3 EVOLUTION'S DANCE -- 8 * Coevolution:WeavingtheWebofLife 189 -- 9 * Doctor Darwin: Disease in the Age of Evolutionary Medicine 211 -- 10 * Passion's Logic: The Evoluion of Sex 229 -- PART 4 HUMANITY'S PLACE IN EVOLUTION AND -- EVOLUTION'S PLACE IN HUMANITY -- 11 * The Gossiping Ape: The Social Roots of Human Evolution 259 -- 12 * Modern Life, 50o,oo000 .c.: The Dawn of Us 293 -- 13 * WhataboutGod? 313 -- Further Reading 345 -- Index 353.
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Map of "Darwin's voyage on the Beagle, 1831-1836" on endpapers.
Machine generated contents note: PART I SLOW VICTORY: DARWIN AND THE RISE OF DARWINISM -- T * Darwin and the Beagle 3 -- 2 * "Like Confessing a Murder": The Origin of Origin of Species 27 -- 3 * Deep Time Discovered: Putting Dates to the History of Life 57 -- 4 * Witnessing Change: Genes, Natural Selection, and Evolution in Action 73 -- PART 2 CREATION AND DESTRUCTION -- 5 * RootingtheTree ofLife: From Life's DawntotheAgeof Microbes 101 -- 6 TheAccidental Tool Kit: Chance and Constraints in Animal Evolution 117 -- 7 Extinction: How Life Ends and Begins Again 143 -- PART 3 EVOLUTION'S DANCE -- 8 * Coevolution:WeavingtheWebofLife 189 -- 9 * Doctor Darwin: Disease in the Age of Evolutionary Medicine 211 -- 10 * Passion's Logic: The Evoluion of Sex 229 -- PART 4 HUMANITY'S PLACE IN EVOLUTION AND -- EVOLUTION'S PLACE IN HUMANITY -- 11 * The Gossiping Ape: The Social Roots of Human Evolution 259 -- 12 * Modern Life, 50o,oo000 .c.: The Dawn of Us 293 -- 13 * WhataboutGod? 313 -- Further Reading 345 -- Index 353.
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