The Joy of Science An Examination of How Scientists Ask and Answer Questions Using the Story of Evolution as a Paradigm /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Lockshin, Richard A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Evolutionary biology.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Nature.; Environment.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Evolutionary Biology.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.

Scientists have great passion. What could be more exhilarating than to go to work every day feeling as if you were once again a nine-year-old called up to he stage to help the magician with his trick? To be a researcher is to always be in the position of having the chance to see how the trick works....

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: The Origin of the Earth and of Species of Animals and Plants as Seen Before the Enlightenment
• Chapter 2: The Seashells on the Mountaintop
• Chapter 3: Aristotle’s and Linnaeus’ Classifications of Living Creatures
• Chapter 4: Natural Selection: the Second Half of Darwin’s Hypothesis
• Chapter 5: Darwin’s Hypothesis
• Chapter 6: The stuff of Inheritance: DNA, RNA, and Mutations
• Chapter 7: The Story of our Planet
• Chapter 8: Competition Among Species
• Chapter 9:The Importance of Disease
• Chapter 10: The Evolution of Humans.