Evolution That Anyone Can Understand

• Main Author: Marcus, Bernard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biodiversity.; Evolutionary biology.; Animal genetics.; Popular works.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Popular Science, general.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.

The function of scientific research is promoting the understanding of the world around us. In theory, anyway, the more we learn, the more potential we have of making our lives better. Thus, we have seen research in electronics provide us with computers, research in chemistry provide us with all mann...

Table of Contents:

•   Preface
• Introduction
• Dedication
• CHAPTER 1:  Exactly what is evolution?
• CHAPTER 2:  WWhat's God got to do with it?
• CHAPTER 3:  But it's only a theory
• Chapter 4:  IceFish and Other Genetic Anomalies and an argument for vestigiality
• CHAPTER 5:  Islands in the sky and elsewhere
• Chapter 6:  Superbugs
• CHAPTER 7:  Biogeography
• CHAPTER 8:  Up a blind alley
• CHAPTER 9:  What is a sepcies?
• CHAPTER 10:  How does it work?
• CHAPTER 11:  What's the evidence
• CHAPTER 12:  Convergance
• CHAPTER 13:  Is it happening now?
• CHAPTER 14:  What about us?