Evolution : the triumph of an idea / Carl Zimmer.

By: Zimmer, Carl, 1966-.

Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Perennial, 2006Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.Description: xxxvii, 487 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780061138409 (pbk.) :; 0061138401 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Evolution (Biology) -- History

Contents:

Slow victory : Darwin and the rise of Darwinism -- Darwin and the Beagle -- "Like confessing a murder" : the origin of Origin of species -- Deep time discovered : putting dates to the history of life -- Witnessing change : genes, natural selection, and evolution in action -- Creation and destruction -- Rooting the tree of life : from life's dawn to the age of microbes -- The accidental tool kit : chance and constraints in animal evolution -- Extinction : how life ends and begins again -- Evolution's dance -- Coevolution : weaving the web of life -- Doctor Darwin : disease in the age of evolutionary medicine -- Passion's logic : the evolution of sex -- Humanity's place in evolution and evolution's place in humanity -- The gossiping ape : the social roots of human evolution -- Modern life, 50,000 B.C. : the dawn of us -- What about God?

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Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, c2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [424]-451).

pt. 1. Slow victory : Darwin and the rise of Darwinism -- 1. Darwin and the Beagle -- 2. "Like confessing a murder" : 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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