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" Evolution : "
Burton S. Guttman
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BL
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692505
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b514694
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| Main Entry
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Guttman, Burton S.
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Evolution : : a beginner's guide /\ Burton S. Guttman
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Oneworld,, [2005]
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, ©2005
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| Series Statement
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Oneworld beginners' guides
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xii, 203 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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1851683712 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Diversity, science, and evolution -- Explaining diversity -- The logic of science -- Then what about the "theory of evolution"? -- Conceptions and misconceptions -- Stories in the rocks -- Geology becomes a science -- Ages and time -- Comparative anatomy -- Impediments to the idea of evolution -- Biology - some basics -- What are organisms? -- Taking a close look at the world -- A modern way to understand biology -- Heredity and Structure -- What is a genome? -- Cells -- Polymers -- Proteins -- Nucleic acids -- Evolution -- Historicity: carrying your story with you -- Origins -- Early cellular evolution -- Animal evolution -- Plant evolution -- Summary and foreword -- A broad view of the process -- The major features of evolution -- The modern synthesis -- What is a species? -- A big picture: the major features of evolution -- Converging and diverging -- Taxonomy, cladistics, and drawing family trees -- Populations and selection -- What is natural selection? -- Populations are variable -- Populations may have different forms -- The idea of a Mendelian population -- The effects of selection -- Gene frequencies may change rapidly in small populations -- Sources of variation -- Mutation is the source of all genetic change -- Sex and variation -- Duplication and diversification -- Horizontal transmission -- Looking ahead: chance and necessity -- Ecosystems: getting along with the neighbors -- Adaptation and fitness -- The concept of an ecological niche -- Gause's principle and its complications -- Adaptations may be morphological, behavioral, or biochemical -- Adaptation and exaptation -- Different ways for selection to act -- The realm of the Red Queen -- Proteins and the subtlety of editing -- Sickle-cell hemoglobin as an adaptation -- How little changes can make big differences -- Living here may be different from living over there -- Fitness generally changes geographically -- Pushing the edge -- Making new species -- Some difficulties in defining species -- Problems with the criterion of interbreeding -- The mechanism of speciation -- After separation, the test -- Evolution as opportunism and bricolage -- Speciation and opportunism on islands -- Adaptive radiation and genetic drift -- Plant evolution through hybridization and polyploidy -- Development and macroevolution -- Being multicellular -- How to build an animal -- The idea of proteins that regulate genes -- Making heads, tails, and segments -- Homeotic genes: producing the organs of the body -- Flexibility and stability -- The secret is in the timing -- Human evolution -- Primates -- Anthropoids and apes -- Early anthropoid evolution -- Australopithecines, the "southern ape-men" -- Why did our ancestors stand upright? -- The first members of Homo -- Homo erectus arrives -- Neanderthal and later humans -- Modern humans -- Probability and entropy -- The improbability of life -- Entropy -- The entropy of evolution and of living -- The problem of creationism -- Creationism in historical context -- Beliefs of "scientific creationism" -- The age of the Earth -- Sedimentary deposits and continental drift -- Coal deposits -- The ice ages -- "Intelligent design theory"
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Evolution.
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576.8
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B818.G83 2005
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