Evolution : the triumph of an idea / Carl Zimmer ; introduction by Stephen Jay Gould ; foreword by R...
Evolution : the triumph of an idea / Carl Zimmer ; introduction by Stephen Jay Gould ; foreword by R...
Evolution : the triumph of an idea / Carl Zimmer ; introduction by Stephen Jay Gould ; foreword by Richard Hutton.
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New York : HarperCollins, 2001.
Date
2001.
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NQ576.809/2
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English
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Physical content
xx, 364 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.
Contents
1. Darwin and the Beagle -- 2. "Like Confessing a Murder": the origin of 'Origin of Species'. -- 3. Deep time discovered: putting dates to the history of life -- 4. Witnessing change: genes, natural selection and evolution in action -- 5. Rooting the tree of life: from life's dawn to the age of micr...
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Publisher
New York : HarperCollins, 2001.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2001.
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This companion volume to one the most important series in PBS history tells the compelling story of the theory of evolution, from Darwin to twenty-first-century science. Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species was breathtaking, beautifully written, staunchly defended, defiantly radical. Yet it emerged long before paleontologists and geologists worke...
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Evolution : the triumph of an idea / Carl Zimmer ; introduction by Stephen Jay Gould ; foreword by Richard Hutton.
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Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography (p. 345-352) and index.
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NQ576.809/2
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0060199067 (hbk.)
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0060199067
9780060199067 (hbk.)
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576.809
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991014511279702626
