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Genre/Form: | Popular works Einführung |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Brian Charlesworth; Deborah Charlesworth |
ISBN: | 0192802518 9780192802514 |
OCLC Number: | 51668497 |
Description: | 145 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- The processes of evolution -- The evidence for evolution : similarities and differences between organisms -- The evidence for evolution : patterns in time and space -- Adaptation and natural selection -- The formation and divergence of species -- Some difficult problems -- Afterword. |
Series Title: | Very short introductions. |
Responsibility: | Brian and Deborah Charlesworth. |
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Abstract:
This book is about the crucial role of evolutionary biology in transforming our view of human origins and relation to the universe, and the impact of this idea on traditional philosophy and religion. It explains the most important basic findings and procedures in the area, and how it has developed since the first publications of Darwin and Wallace 150 years ago.
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Evolution without the crap. * Focus. * Two distinguished biologists tell you what evolution is about, in a crystal-clear fashion. It's refreshing to read a clear, non-polemic account of the truth, which you rarely get in popular science writing. * Focus * Read more...
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