Improbable destinies : fate, chance, and the future of evolution / Jonathan B. Losos ; illustrated b...
Improbable destinies : fate, chance, and the future of evolution / Jonathan B. Losos ; illustrated b...
Improbable destinies : fate, chance, and the future of evolution / Jonathan B. Losos ; illustrated by Marlin Peterson.
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New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
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G 2017/5668
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English
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Physical content
xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction. The good dinosaur -- Part one. Nature's doppelgängers. Evolutionary déjà vu -- Replicated reptiles -- Evolutionary idiosyncrasy -- Part two. Experiments in the wild. The not-so-glacial pace of evolutionary change -- Colorful Trinidad -- Lizard castaways -- From manure to modern scie...
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New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
A Harvard museum curator draws on the latest breakthroughs in evolutionary biology to examine how tiny, random convergences, from mutations to butterfly sneezes, have triggered remarkable evolutionary changes.
"Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point out many examples of contingency, cases where the tiniest change--a random mutation or an ancient butterfly sneeze--caused evolution...
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Improbable destinies : fate, chance, and the future of evolution / Jonathan B. Losos ; illustrated by Marlin Peterson.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-353) and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/5668
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74VKVgyRgMEZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgyRgMEZ
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ISBN
0399184929 (hardback)
9780399184925 (hardback)
DDC
576.8
MMS ID
991024148688802626
