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Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
For more than twenty-five years, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a column called "The View of Life" for Natural History magazine. More than twenty entries from that column comprise this collection, which includes such essays as "Boyle's Law and Darwin's Details," "Brotherhood by Inversion (or, As the Worm Turns)," "Darwin's American Soulmate," "The Diet of Worms and Defenestration of Prague," "The Dodo in the Caucus Race," "Reversing Established...
3) Evolution
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text about and photography of experiments, animals, plants, bones, and fossils reveal the ideas and discoveries that have changed our understanding of the natural world and how life began.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman-an entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place-in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all our inventions--our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations--we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society. Nicholas A. Christakis...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Somewhere west of Munich, Madelaine B�ohme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they imagined: the fossilized bones of Danuvius guggenmosi ignite a global media frenzy. This ancient ancestordefies our knowledge of human history-his nearly twelve-million-year-old bones were not located in Africa-the so-called birthplace of humanity-but in Europe, and his features suggest we evolved much...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything we thought we knew about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world's leading natural history museums, is the scientific find of a lifetime - a perfectly fossilized early primate, older than the previously most
...Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A major new book overturning our assumptions about how evolution works
Earth’s natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point out many examples of contingency, cases where the tiniest change—a random mutation or an ancient butterfly sneeze—caused...
Earth’s natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point out many examples of contingency, cases where the tiniest change—a random mutation or an ancient butterfly sneeze—caused...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Revealing the mechanics of evolutionary theory, the scientist, engineer, and inventor presents a compelling argument for the scientific unviability of creationism and insists that creationism's place in the science classroom is harmful to the future of the greater world.
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
The evolutionary biologist and atheist, whose work has transformed thought on genes, evolution, and religion, offers insight into his own evolution as a man and as a thinker, from his beginnings in Kenya to his intellectual awakening at Oxford.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Every fossil tells a story. Prothero recounts the adventures behind the discovery of twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils and explains their significance within the larger fossil record, creating a riveting history of life on our planet.
17) Fragment
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they've seen before... an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019],c2019
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"They are the most iconic animals on Planet Earth--voracious crocodiles, acrobatic birds, majestic elephants, stupendous whales. To see them is to marvel--and to ask a surprisingly challenging question: Where did these amazing creatures come from? Traveling millions of years into the past, we unravel these iconic creatures' lineage--a story full of twists and turns, punctuated by dramatic events in Earth's history. Along the way we meet an extraordinary...
Author
Series
Origin mystery volume 1
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how. Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity may not survive this time"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Origin mystery volume 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Edition 3.0.0.0.
Language
English
Description
"A pandemic 70,000 years in the making...will change humanity...forever"--Page [4] of cover.
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