Nature strange and beautiful : how living beings evolved and made the earth a home /

A beautifully written exploration of how cooperation shaped life on earth, from its single-celled beginnings to complex human societies In this rich, wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert Leigh explores the results of billions of years of evolution at work. Leigh, who has spent five d...

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Tác giả chính: Leigh, Egbert Giles, Jr., 1940- (Tác giả)
Tác giả khác: Ziegler, Christian (Nhiếp ảnh gia)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press [2019]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvmd85hs
Mục lục:
  • Introduction
  • How we approach the problem
  • Adaptation, individual and social
  • Life's common ancestry, and its origin
  • Diversification
  • Integrating diversity into community
  • Heredity, natural selection, and evolution
  • Organizing genes for adaptive evolution
  • The processes of evolution
  • The last transition
  • What have we learned, and what is still unknown?
  • Bibliographic essay.