| Description |
2 volumes (xvii, 687 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits ; 27 cm. |
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Greenwood icons |
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Greenwood icons.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [641]-671) and index. |
| Summary |
Offers a set of clear, understandable explanations for the evidence for evolution and why that evidence is so important for the understanding of the origins of life. |
| Contents |
Vol. 1. Evolution as a paradigm / Olof Ljungström -- Charles Darwin / Bowdoin Van Riper -- T.H. Huxley: The evolution of the bulldog / Lisa Nocks -- Gregor Mendel / Dawn Mooney Digrius -- "Survival of the fittest," / Peter Bowler -- The Neandertals / Marianne Sommer -- Java man / Pat Shipman -- Peking man / Brian Regal -- Peppered moths / David W. Rudge -- The horse series / Christine Janis -- Taung child / Anne Katrine Gjerløff -- The monkey trials / Brian Regal. |
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Vol 2. The dinosaurs / David Fastovsky -- Archaeopteryx / Bent E.K. Lindow -- The fossil record / Olof Ljungström -- Geologic time scale and radiometric dating / Bowdoin Van Riper -- Piltdown man and the almost men / Brian Regal -- Fruit flies / Jeffrey H. Schwartz -- Neo-Darwinism / Adam S. Wilkins -- Cladistics / Jeffrey H. Schwartz -- Louis Leakey / Anne Katrine Gjerløff -- Lucy / Holly Dunsworth -- "Out of Africa," / Christopher Stringer -- Intelligent design / Brian Regal. |
| Subject |
Evolution -- Encyclopedias -- English.
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Anthropology, Physical -- history -- Encyclopedias -- English.
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Evolution (Biology) -- Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Regal, Brian.
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| ISBN |
9780313339110 set alkaline paper |
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0313339112 set alkaline paper |
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9780313339127 v. 1 alkaline paper |
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0313339120 v. 1 alkaline paper |
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9780313339134 v. 2 alkaline paper |
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0313339139 v. 2 alkaline paper |
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