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Big Questions: Evolution
In The Big Questions: Evolution, one of the world\\\'s leading experts, Francisco Ayala, examines key facets of genetics, evolution and cloning. He uses the most up-to-date research to answer the 20 key questions of evolution, and investigate what they tell us about life on Earth. What is evolu...
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Quercus
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: What Is Evolution?
- The central-unifying concept of biology
- Was Darwin Right?
- Evolution is a fact
- What Is Natural Selection?
- Design without designer
- What Is Survival Of The Fittest?
- The evolutionary synthesis
- Is Evolution A Random Process?
- Chance and necessity
- What Is A Species?
- Keeping separate
- What Are Chromosomes, Genes And DNA?
- The double helix
- How Do Genes Build Bodies?
- Egg to adult, brain to mind
- What Is Molecular Evolution?
- The molecular clock
- How Did Life Begin?
- A chicken-and-egg question
- What Is The Tree Of Life?
- LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor
- Am I Really A Monkey?
- Biology to culture
- What Does The Fossil Record Tell Us?
- Life has existed on Earth for most of our planet's history
- What Is The Missing Link?
- The story of human ancestors
- Is Intelligence Inherited?
- Individual intelligence depends only partly on genes
- Will Humans Continue To Evolve?