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The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Evolution

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Table of Contents:
I. THE EVOLUTION OF AN IDEA. 1. The Basics of Evolution. Why Oppose Evolution? Why Is Evolution So Misunderstood? Let's Get Our Terms Straight. Where Did You Come From? Why Does Darwin Matter? Evolution Is Observable, but You Might Not Like What You See. 2. The Greek Philosophers Tackle Evolution. Anaximander: All Life Comes from the Sea. Aristotle: The Ladder of Being. Empedocles: Limbs and Organs Up for Grab. The Stoics: Change As Fate. The Epicureans and the Blessed Phase of History. The Legacy of the Ancient Greeks. 3. The Age of Earth and the Fixity of the Species. The Problem of Genesis. Getting to Nature Through the Back Door. Reviving the Ladder of Being. Turning Back the Clock: The Protestant Reformation. Taking Creation Out of the Picture. John Ray: Searching for a Divine Master Plan. The Sacred Theory of the Earth. 4. Earth Gets a History. The Chain of Being. Mr. In Between. The Discovery of the Earth. Buffon: The Death of the Biblical Chronology. The Albinos from Senegal and the Problem of Inheritance. 5. The Love Life of Plants. Carl Linnaeus: The Ultimate Classifier. Buffon and Linnaeus: A Glance Backward. Lamarck: Looking for Answers in All the Wrong Places. Erasmus Darwin: The Poet of Nature. II. THE ADVENT OF DARWIN. 6. Form, Function, and Catastrophe. George Cuvier: Rescuing Geology from the Atheists. Buckland Joins the Rearguard Action. Louis Agassiz: Wisdom, Greatness, and Providence. Geoffroy St. Hilaire and the Search for a Single Ancestor. 7. The Heroic Age of Geology. William Smith: Digging into the Rocks. One Too Many Catastrophes. Lyell's Geological Epochs. No to Organic Progression. Uniformitarianism: The Rules of the Game Stay the Same. Darwin's Teacher: Adam Sedgwick. 8. Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle. "Shooting, Dogs, and Rat Catching". The Voyage of the Beagle. 9. Nature's Winners and Losers. Evolution of a Theory. Darwin's Epiphany. Faltering at the Finish Line. 10. The Debut of Evolution. The Bombshell. Evolution Acquires a Second Father. The Origin of the Origin. III. GENES AND EVOLUTION. 11. The Man Who Saved Darwinism. Taking Up Darwin's Cause. Matter and Motion: The Riddle of Reproduction. New Blood, Pure Blood, and Bad Blood. A Monk and His Pea Plants. Mendel Lost and Found. 12. The ABCs of Natural Selection. Brown Urine and Colorless Skin: The Discovery of Genes. The Search for the Stuff of Life: Chromosomes, DNA, and the Genome. The Link Between Genes and Evolution. The Spice of Life. Who Gets to Contribute Their Genetic Legacy. 13. Who Is the Fittest One of All? The Survival of the Fittest: What Does It Really Mean? Diving into the Gene Pool. Tracking Down Genes Through the Generations. 14. The Natural Process of Loss. What Natural Selection Is-And Isn't. Natural vs. Artificial Selection-What's the Difference? Sexual Selection: What's Love Got to Do with It? Genetic Drift: Why Panthers Are in Danger of Extinction. 15. Mutants, Shuffled Genes, and Mateless Maggots. Putting Genes Back in the Pool. Gene Flow: A Little Help from One's Friends. Recombination: The Great Gene Shuffle. Where Do New Species Come From? IV. PUTTING IT ALTOGETHER: THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 16. The Big Picture: Macroevolution. Macro- and Microevolution: What's the Difference? The Modern Synthesis. The Dynamics of Macroevolution. Looking for Common Ancestors. Vestiges of the Great-Great-Great-Grandfather. Reading the Fossils. Incumbency: Getting in Before the Crowd. The Timing and Tempo of Evolution. The Truth About Cats and Dogs. 17. The Role of Extinction in Evolution. Shaping the Patterns of Change. Some Species Die So That Others Might Live. Punctuated Equilibrium. 18. Continental Drift and Evolution. From Earth to Moon and Back Again. Pulling Apart the Supercontinent. Wrenching the Poles: Explaining the Cambrian Explosion. 19. The Search for the Missing Link. Hoaxes and Frauds. What Should a Proper Hominid Look Like? Australopithecines: Our Earliest Ancestors...Maybe. The Handy Man. Homo Erectus and the Cost of a Larger Brain. The Neanderthals Tell Their Side of the Story. 20. Climbing Down from the Trees. Out of Africa: The First Migrations. Why Did the Neanderthals Vanish? Gearing Up for the Stone Age: Bring On the Tools. Humans Aren't the Only Tool Makers. Why Did Humans Evolve?. "Walk on Your Own Two Feet!" Why Did Human Evolution Stop? Why Human Evolution May Get Going Again. V. THE IMPACT OF EVOLUTION ON SOCIETY. 21. The Siren Call of Social Darwinism. The Survival of the Fittest Revisited. Spencer and Sumner: To the Middle Class Belong the Spoils. Dragging the Chain of Being out of the Closet. The Virtue of War and the Subjugation of Savages. Let Free Markets Prevail. Mr. Marx, Meet Mr. Darwin. Vestiges of Social Darwinism. 22. Eugenics: The Dangers of Purity. Breeding Out the "Undesirables". "Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough". The Ultimate Eugenics Experiment. What's in a Name? Sociobiology: A Successor to Eugenics? 23. Creationism: Putting God Back into the Picture. Joining the Debate over Evolution. America After Darwin and Before Creationism. The Monkey Trial. Creationism Comes of Age. Creationists Have Their Say. 24. Building a Better Mousetrap: Intelligent Design. Designer on Trial. Poking Holes in Darwinism. Irreducible Complexity Does Not Compute. Proving Evolution and Disproving a Designer. 25. The Future of Evolution. The Biological Century. Rewriting the Book of Life. Designing Babies: The Ultimate Shopping List. Altering the Environment/Altering Ourselves. The Immortality Game: Defeating Age and Death. VI. APPENDIXES. Appendix A: Glossary. Appendix B: Timeline. Index.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780028642260
  • Publisher: Pearson Professional Education
  • Publisher Imprint: Alpha Books
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 232 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0028642260
  • Publisher Date: 06 Nov 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Weight: 553 gr


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