Explaining life through evolution

Explaining life through evolution

Prosanta Chakrabarty
Book - 2023

"A friendly, non-threatening, and accessible introduction to evolution, emphasizing both the evidence for evolution and the importance of understanding it in contemporary social context"--

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主要作者: Chakrabarty, Prosanta (Author)
格式: 圖書
語言:English
出版: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
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505 0 |a Part I: A Personal Prologue -- Called to Action -- Pulled into the Fight -- On Trust -- Facts and Truth -- Part II: The Evolution Revolution -- Introduction to Evolution -- The Great Chain of Being or Ladder of Life -- Theories of Evolution -- From So Simple a Beginning -- The Selection of Natural Selection -- Mendel and the Maintenance of Variation -- Mutants and Mutations -- Speciation: The Formation of New Species -- On Fossils and the Book of Life -- Part III: Questions and Misconceptions -- Who You Calling "Primitive"? -- Our Crappy-Crappie Bodies -- The Tree of Life -- The Origin of Life -- The History of Life -- Part IV: Why Understanding Evolution Matters -- Evolution in the Anthropocene -- Natural History -- Our Genealogy and Ancestry -- Sex/Gender/Sexuality -- Combatting Post-Truth with Trust -- Conversation with a Creationist -- Epilogue 
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