Why Evolution Is True / Почему эволюция существует
Год: 2009
Автор: Coyne J.A. / Койн Д.А.
Жанр: Теория эволюции
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0670020532
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF
Качество: Изначально компьютерное (eBook)
Интерактивное оглавление: Нет
Количество страниц: 330
Описание: In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant “intelligent design,” there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned—the evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection. Even Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, while extolling the beauty of evolution and examining case studies, have not focused on the evidence itself. Yet the proof is vast, varied, and magnificent, drawn from many different fields of science. Scientists are observing species splitting into two and are finding more and more fossils capturing change in the past—dinosaurs that have sprouted feathers, fish that have grown limbs.
Why Evolution Is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, paleontology, geology, molecular biology, and anatomy that demonstrate the “indelible stamp” of the processes first proposed by Darwin. In crisp, lucid prose accessible to a wide audience, Why Evolution Is True dispels common misunderstandings and fears about evolution and clearly confirms that this amazing process of change has been firmly established as a scientific truth.
Описание на русском языке:
В книге приводится доказательства эволюции простым и понятным языком, доступным для широкой публики. Эволюция рассматривается со всех точек зрения: используются как химические доказательства, так и доказательства в виде ископаемых останков вымерших видов. Книга раскрывает все тайны, которые могут возникнуть у непосвящённого человека относительно эволюционного учения.
Preface
Introduction
1. What Is Evolution?
2. Written in the Rocks
3. Remnants: Vestiges, Embryos, and Bad Design
4. The Geography of Life
5. The Engine of Evolution
6. How Sex Drives Evolution
7. The Origin of Species
8. What About Us?
9. Evolution Redux
Notes
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
References
Illustration Credits
Index
J. A. Coyne - Why Evolution is true - 2009(330, 0670020532), pdf (eBook)