Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea - Couverture souple

Zimmer, Carl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0434009091 ISBN 13 : 9780434009091

Editeur : William Heinemann Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

The theory of evolution stands over modern biology as quantum mechanics and relativity do over modern physics. And few modern scientists are as widely familiar and celebrated as Darwin. Yet most of us remain less than entirely clear as to how evolution by natural selection works and a series of celebrated titles by such writers as Steven Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins do little to help, being each so partisan of a particular, contentious, view of the subject. Carl Zimmer draws together the entire history of the subject, from Darwin's original insights on the voyage of the Beagle, through the 'modern synthesis', which combined genetics with natural selection, to the Darwinian medicine and the 'selfish gene' debates of today. There is no comparably balanced and wide-ranging book available at present, let alone one that is as well and accessibly written. For all of us who lack a comfortable familiarity with this most influential of scientific ideas, an idea that has as many implications for our understanding of child-rearing, AIDS and the fate of the rain-forest as it does for the 'origin of species', this is an ideal introduction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A former senior editor at Discover magazine, Carl Zimmer writes a column on evolution for the US magazine Natural History (where all of Stephen Jay Gould's essays have been first published). He is the author of two previous books and lives in New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Heinemann Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0434009091
• ISBN 13: 9780434009091
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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• Personne responsable: non disponible