Evolution
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Evolution
Natural History Museum, 1999
2nd ed
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-155) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Introducing ideas on how life originated and diversified on earth, this text provides a summary of modern evolutionary theory. It includes chapters on neural evolution and gene evolution, molecular evolution, and the latest theories in the late 1990s on the evolution of humans.
Table of Contents
- Propositions
- species
- variation within the species
- heredity
- genetics and variation
- mutation
- natural selection theory
- selection in action
- neutral evolution and the molecular clock
- gene families and gene evolution
- the origin of the species
- speciation in the Galapagos Islands
- the hierarchy of life
- proof and disproof
- science and politics
- the origin and early evolution of life
- evolution and humanity
- who's who.
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