Evolution That Anyone Can Understand

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marcus, Bernard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2012, 2012
Edition:1st ed. 2012
Series:SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  •   Preface
  • Introduction
  • Dedication
  • CHAPTER 1:  Exactly what is evolution?
  • CHAPTER 2:  WWhat's God got to do with it?
  • CHAPTER 3:  But it's only a theory
  • Chapter 4:  IceFish and Other Genetic Anomalies and an argument for vestigiality
  • CHAPTER 5:  Islands in the sky and elsewhere
  • Chapter 6:  Superbugs
  • CHAPTER 7:  Biogeography
  • CHAPTER 8:  Up a blind alley
  • CHAPTER 9:  What is a sepcies?
  • CHAPTER 10:  How does it work?
  • CHAPTER 11:  What's the evidence
  • CHAPTER 12:  Convergance
  • CHAPTER 13:  Is it happening now?
  • CHAPTER 14:  What about us?