Explaining life through evolution /
"A friendly, non-threatening, and accessible introduction to evolution, emphasizing both the evidence for evolution and the importance of understanding it in contemporary social context"--
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2023]
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Contents -- Part I: A Personal Prologue -- Called to Action -- Pulled into the Fight -- On Trust -- Facts and Truth -- Part II: The Evolution Revolution -- Introduction to Evolution -- The Great Chain of Being or Ladder of Life -- Theories of Evolution -- From So Simple a Beginning -- The Selection of Natural Selection -- Mendel and the Maintenance of Variation -- Mutants and Mutations -- Speciation: The Formation of New Species -- On Fossils and the Book of Life -- Part III: Questions and Misconceptions -- Who You Calling "Primitive"? -- Our Crappy-Crappie Bodies -- The Tree of Life | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Origin of Life -- The History of Life -- Part IV: Why Understanding Evolution Matters -- Evolution in the Anthropocene -- Natural History -- Our Genealogy and Ancestry -- Sex/Gender/Sexuality -- Combatting Post-Truth with Trust -- Conversation with a Creationist -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Figure Credits -- Index -- Plates | |
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