Prosanta Chakrabarty

Explaining Life through Evolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"First published by Penguin Random House India."--Title page verso.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 137mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780262546256
• ISBN-10: 0262546256
• Artikelnr.: 66726026

Autorenporträt

Prosanta Chakrabarty is Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Fishes at Louisiana State University. He is a TED Senior Fellow, an Elected Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), a Fulbright Distinguished Chair, and a National Geographic Certified Educator.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: A Personal Prologue
Called to Action 3
Pulled Into the Fight 11
On Trust 17
Facts and Truth 21
Part II: The Evolution Revolution
Introduction to Evolution 27
The Great Chain of Being or Ladder of Life 37
Theories of Evolution 47
From So Simple a Beginning 53
The Selection of Natural Selection 67
Mendel and the Maintenance of Variation 73
Mutants and Mutations 79
Speciation: The Formation of New Species 89
Part III: Questions and Misconceptions
Who You Calling "Primitive"? 109
Our Crappy-Crappie Bodies 117
The Tree of Life 123
The Origin of Life 129
The History of Life 137
Part IV: Why Understanding Evolution Matters
Evolution in the Anthropocene 145
Natural History 155
Our Genealogy and Ancestry 163
Sex/Gender/Sexuality 175
Combating Post-Truth with Trust 189
Conversation with a Creationist 195
Epilogue 201
Acknowledgments 207
Glossary 209
Notes 219
Further Reading 257
Figure Credits 259
Index 263