Rudolf A Raff

Once We All Had Gills

Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World

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Produktbeschreibung

Once We All Had Gills is the story of evolution writ large: its history, how it is studied, what it means, and why it has become a useful target in a cultural war against rational thought and the idea of a secular, religiously tolerant nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 696g
• ISBN-13: 9780253002358
• ISBN-10: 0253002354
• Artikelnr.: 34925276

Autorenporträt

Rudolf A. Raff

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Becoming a Naturalist
1. Space-Time
2. Layers of the Past
3. An Age of Dinosaurs
4. A School a Minute
5. In the Natural World
6. Transformations
7. Going South
8. Learning to Love the Bomb
9. On the Road to Chiapas
10. The Masked Messenger
Part II: Finding Evolution, Founding Evo-Devo
11. Evolution as Science
12. Dining with Darwin
13. Life with Sea Urchins
14. Embryos Evolving
15. Evolution in the Tasman Sea
16. An Alternate Present
17. Biology Meets Fossils
Part III: Strange New World
18. Darwin's Day in Court
19. Creationist Makeovers
20. Evolution Matters
Selected Bibliography
Index