The Joy of Science An Examination of How Scientists Ask and Answer Questions Using the Story of Evolution as a Paradigm /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lockshin, Richard A. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6099-1
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: The Origin of the Earth and of Species of Animals and Plants as Seen Before the Enlightenment
  • Chapter 2: The Seashells on the Mountaintop
  • Chapter 3: Aristotle's and Linnaeus' Classifications of Living Creatures
  • Chapter 4: Natural Selection: the Second Half of Darwin's Hypothesis
  • Chapter 5: Darwin's Hypothesis
  • Chapter 6: The stuff of Inheritance: DNA, RNA, and Mutations
  • Chapter 7: The Story of our Planet
  • Chapter 8: Competition Among Species
  • Chapter 9:The Importance of Disease
  • Chapter 10: The Evolution of Humans.