| Description |
xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-353) and index. |
| 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 science ; Evolution in swimming pools and sandboxes -- Part three: Evolution under the microscope. Replaying the tape ; Breakthrough in a bottle ; Jots, tittles, and drunken fruit flies ; The human environment ; Conclusion: Fate, chance, and the inevitability of humans. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Evolution (Biology)
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Natural selection.
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Mutation (Biology)
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Evolution (Biology) (OCoLC)fst00917302
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| Added Author |
Peterson, Marlin, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9780399184925 (hardcover) |
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0399184929 (hardcover) |
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