Why Evolution is True

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Oxford University Press, 2009 - 309 Seiten
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For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection. Yet, as this succinct and important book shows, that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, and drawn from many disparate fields of science. The very latest research is uncovering a stream of evidence revealing evolution in action - from the actual observation of a species splitting into two, to new fossil discoveries, to the deciphering of the evidence stored in our genome. Why Evolution is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, palaeontology,geology, molecular biology, anatomy, and development to demonstrate the 'indelible stamp' of the processes first proposed by Darwin. It is a crisp, lucid, and accessible statement that will leave no one with an open mind in any doubt about the truth of evolution.
 

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Nutzerbericht  - LisCarey - LibraryThing

This is a pretty good, and comprehensive, discussion of the evidence for evolution, in ways we don't always get it in reports of the latest new findings and the conclusions that scientists have ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

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Nutzerbericht  - larryerick - LibraryThing

Very early into this book, I felt it was a bit too much like a classroom textbook for my taste, but it quickly transitioned into a master class taught by the best of teachers. It's overflowing with ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

Inhalt

1 What Is Evolution?
1
2 Written in the Rocks
21
Vestiges Embryos and Bad Design
59
4 The Geography of Life
93
5 The Engine of Evolution
121
6 How Sex Drives Evolution
157
7 The Origin of Species
183
8 What About Us?
207
9 Evolution Redux
241
Notes
255
Glossary
266
Suggestions for Further Reading
272
References
279
Illustration Credits
295
Index
297
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Autoren-Profil (2009)

Biology professor Jerry Allen Coyne was born in 1949 and teaches in the University of Chicago's Department of Ecology and Evolution. Coyne was the 1971 class valedictorian at the College of William & Mary. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University and an NIH postdoc in genetics at UC Davis. Coyne has been the Vice President of the Society for the Study of Evolution and an associate editor of Evolution and The American Naturalist. Coyne's work has been published in scientific journals as well as The New York Times and The New Republic. He is known for his opposition to the creationist theory of intelligent design. Coyne wrote the bestselling book Why Evolution is True and co-authored Speciation with H. Allen Orr.

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