How Science Works: Evolution The Nature of Science & The Science of Nature /

• Main Author: Ellis, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Evolutionary biology.; Animal genetics.; Popular works.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Evolutionary Biology.; Biomedicine general.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Popular Science, general.

Evolution is just a theory, isn’t it? What is a scientific theory anyway? Don’t scientists prove things? What is the difference between a fact, a hypothesis and a theory in science? How does scientific thinking differ from religious thinking? Why are most leading scientists atheists? Are science and...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Preface: The Importance of Science
• Introduction
• Two Ways of Explaining the Universe
• How Science Works
• Darwin's Theory of Evolution
• The Evidence for Evolution
• Some Major Events in Evolution
• The Evolution of Eyes
• Human Evolution
• Definitions
• Suggestions for Discussion Topics.