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Book
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Author
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 Zimmer, Carl, 1966-
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Title
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Evolution : the triumph of an idea / Carl Zimmer ; introduction by Stephen Jay Gould ; foreword by Richard Hutton.
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Edition
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1st ed.
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Publisher
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New York : HarperCollins, c2001.
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Physical Descrip.
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xx, 364 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.
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Note(s)
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Map of "Darwin’s voyage on the Beagle, 1831-1836" on endpapers.
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Contents
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pt. 1. Slow victory : Darwin and the rise of Darwinism -- 1. Darwin and the Beagle -- 2. "Like confessing amurder" : the origin of Origin of species -- 3. Deep time discovered : putting dates to the history of life -- 4. Witnessing change : genes, natural selection, and evolution in action -- pt. 2. Creation and destruction -- 5. Rooting the tree of life : from life’s dawn to the age of microbes -- 6. The accidental tool kit : chance and constraints in animal evolution -- 7. Extinction : how life ends and begins again -- pt. 3. Evolution’s dance -- 8. Coevolution : weaving the web of life -- 9. Doctor Darwin : disease in the age of evolutionary medicine -- 10. Passion’s logic : the evolution of sex -- pt. 4. Humanity’s place in evolution and evolution’s place in humanity -- 11. The gossiping ape : the social roots of human evolution -- 12. Modern life, 50,000 B.C. : the dawn of us -- 13. What about God?
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Subject(s)
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Evolution (Biology) -- History.
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ISBN
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0060199067
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Owned By
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AC Frost Library
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Owned By
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MH Main Library
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Owned By
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SC Young Science Library
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Owned By
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UM Du Bois Library
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