Jeffrey Kevin McKee

The Riddled Chain

Chance, Coincidence and Chaos in Human Evolution

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780813527833
• ISBN-10: 081352783X
• Artikelnr.: 22102296

Autorenporträt

JEFFREY K. MCKEE teaches in the Department of Anthropology and Evolution, Ecology, & Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University. He is the co-author of Understanding Human Evolution.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Chance, Coincidence, and Chaos
2. Between a Rock and a Hard Place
3. A Tale of Two Sites
4. Speeding Up the Pace of Evolution
5. Rebels Without a Cause
6. The Mother of Invention
7. "You Can't Always Get What You Want..."
8. Autocatalysis
9. The Beginning and the End of Evolution
Notes
Literature Cited
Index