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Author Wagner, Andreas, 1967 January 26- author.

Title Arrival of the fittest : solving evolution's greatest puzzle / Andreas Wagner.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Current, 2014.

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  572.838 WAG    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  572.838 WAGNER    Check Shelf
Description viii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-280) and index.
Contents World enough, and time -- What Darwin didn't know -- The origin of innovation -- The universal library -- Shapely beauties -- Command and control -- The hidden architecture -- From nature to technology -- Plato's cave.
Summary "Wagner draws on over fifteen years of research to present the missing piece in Darwin's theory. Using experimental and computational technologies that were heretofore unimagined, he has found that adaptations are not just driven by chance, but by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take"--Amazon.com.
Subject Natural selection.
Evolutionary genetics.
Evolutionary genetics. (OCoLC)fst00917342
Natural selection. (OCoLC)fst01034520
ISBN 9781591846468 (hardback) $27.95
1591846463 (hardback)
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