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9780674031753: Evolution: The First Four Billion Years
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ISBN 10: 067403175X ISBN 13: 9780674031753
Casa editrice: Belknap Pr, 2009

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Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, authoritative, and inviting one-volume introduction to evolutionary biology available. Clear, informative, and comprehensive in scope, Evolution opens with a series of major essays dealing with the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology, with major empirical and theoretical questions in the science, from speciation to adaptation, from paleontology to evolutionary development (evo devo), and concluding with essays on the social and political significance of evolutionary biology today.

A second encyclopedic section travels the spectrum of topics in evolution with concise, informative, and accessible entries on individuals from ­Aristotle and Linneaus to Louis Leakey and Jean Lamarck; from T. H. Huxley and E. O. Wilson to Joseph Felsenstein and Motoo Kimura; and on subjects from altruism and amphibians to evolutionary psychology and Piltdown Man to the Scopes trial and social Darwinism. Readers will find the latest word on the history and philosophy of evolution, the nuances of the science itself, and the intricate interplay among evolutionary study, religion, philosophy, and ­society.

Appearing at the beginning of the Darwin Year of 2009—the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species—this volume is a fitting tribute to the science Darwin set in motion.

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The First Four Billion Years

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Editore
Belknap Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
067403175X
ISBN 13 
9780674031753
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
979
Redattore
Ruse Michael, Travis Joseph
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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ISBN 10:  0674062213 ISBN 13:  9780674062214
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