EVOLUTION The First Four Billion Years
Ruse, Michael and Joseph Travis, editors
Language: English
Published by Belknap Press/Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009
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- Title
- EVOLUTION The First Four Billion Years
- Author
- Ruse, Michael and Joseph Travis, editors
- Publisher
- Belknap Press/Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Very Good/Good +
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover w/DJ
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 067403175X
- ISBN 13
- 9780674031753
- Illustrator
- Black & White/Color Illus.
- Seller catalogs
- Science-Evolution/Darwin
Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, authoritative, and inviting one-volume introduction to evolutionary biology available. Clear, informative, and comprehensive in scope, Evolution opens with a series of major essays dealing with the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology, with major empirical and theoretical questions in the science, from speciation to adaptation, from paleontology to evolutionary development (evo devo), and concluding with essays on the social and political significance of evolutionary biology today.
A second encyclopedic section travels the spectrum of topics in evolution with concise, informative, and accessible entries on individuals from Aristotle and Linneaus to Louis Leakey and Jean Lamarck; from T. H. Huxley and E. O. Wilson to Joseph Felsenstein and Motoo Kimura; and on subjects from altruism and amphibians to evolutionary psychology and Piltdown Man to the Scopes trial and social Darwinism. Readers will find the latest word on the history and philosophy of evolution, the nuances of the science itself, and the intricate interplay among evolutionary study, religion, philosophy, and society.
Appearing at the beginning of the Darwin Year of 2009―the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species―this volume is a fitting tribute to the science Darwin set in motion.
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About the Author
Joseph Travis is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Biological Science at Florida State University.
Edward O. Wilson was Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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