At the Water's Edge: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life - Couverture rigide

Zimmer, Carl

 
9780684834900: At the Water's Edge: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0684834901 ISBN 13 : 9780684834900
Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

Evolution is one of the most hotly debated areas of popular science. Zimmer's account of cutting-edge scientific research and fieldwork helps to illuminate this particular chapter in the history of ideas.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

AT THE WATER'S EDGE is a beautifully-written, accessible account of the greatest evolutionary mystery of all. We all know about evolution but it still seems absurd that our ancestors were fish. How did we ever get ashore? How did we make legs, arms and our extremely complex intelligence? Darwin's natural selection was the key to solving generation-to-generation evolution - microevolution - but it could only point us to an explanation still to come of the engines of macroevolution, the transformation of body shapes across millions of years. Carl Zimmer takes the reader on a fascinating quest to understand their beginnings, from pre-Darwinian scientists struggling to interpret early fossil discoveries to latter day geneticists, from whale graveyards in the deserts of Egypt to an amazing find in a forgotten specimen drawer at Oxford University. Including all the latest scientific research, AT THE WATER'S EDGE reveals how macroevolution works and, in doing so, provides a comprehensive, lucid and authoritative answer to the mystery of how nature actually made itself.

Biographie de l'auteur

Carl Zimmer is a senior editor at DISCOVER magazine. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Everett Clark Award for science journalism in 1994 and the American Institute of Biological Sciences Media Award in 1997.

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Éditeur
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0684834901
ISBN 13 
9780684834900
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
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