Evolution: a beginner's guide

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An accessible guide to a key scientific concept explores the origins and impact of Darwin's theory of evolution, from the first attempts to date fossils to the modern-day mapping and coding of DNA using supercomputers.

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Full title :Evolution : a beginner's guide / Burton S. Guttman.

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Publication Date:©2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oneworld
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2005.

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Description:1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9781435684287, 1435684281, 9781780740188, 1780740182, 1282092685, 9781282092686, 1851683712, 9781851683710
oclc:ocn666931454
LC Classification:B818
Dewey Decimal:576.8

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Explaining diversity -- The logic of science -- Then what about the "theory of evolution"? -- Conceptions and misconceptions -- one diversity, science, and evolution -- Geology becomes a science -- Ages and time -- Comparative anatomy -- Impediments to the idea of evolution -- two stories in the rocks -- What are organisms? -- Taking a close look at the world -- A modern way to understand biology -- Heredity and Structure -- What is a genome? -- Cells -- Polymers -- Proteins -- Nucleic acids -- Evolution.

Historicity: carrying your story with you -- Origins -- Early cellular evolution -- Animal evolution -- Plant evolution -- Summary and foreword -- three biology -- some basics -- The major features of evolution -- The modern synthesis -- What is a species? -- A big picture: the major features of evolution -- Converging and diverging -- Taxonomy, cladistics, and drawing family trees -- Populations and selection -- What is natural selection? -- Populations are variable -- Populations may have different forms -- The idea of a Mendelian population -- The effects of selection.

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