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Evolution : a Scientific American reader.

Contributor(s): University of Chicago. Press.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006Description: vii, 355 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0226742695 (pbk.); 9780226742694 (pbk.).Uniform titles: Scientific American. Subject(s): Evolution (Biology)DDC classification: 576.8
Contents:
The Evolution of the universe. - The evolution of the universe / P. James Peebles, David N. Schramm, Edwin L. Turner and Richard G. Kron. - The first stars in the universe / Richard B. Larson and Volker Bromm. - Exploring our universe and others / Martin Rees. - Searching for life in our solar system / Bruce M. Jakosky. - The fate of life in the universe / Lawrence M. Krauss and Glenn D. Starkman. - Life's rocky start / Robert M. Hazen. - Misconceptions about the big bang / Charles H. Lineweaver and Tamara M. Davis. - The evolution of the Earth / Claude J. Allegre and Stephen H. Schneider. - Cellular evolution. - Uprooting the tree of life / W. Ford Doolittle. - The birth of complex cells / Christian de Duve. - Viral quasispecies / Manfred Eige. - How cells respond to stress / William J. Welch. - Cell communication : the inside story / John D. Scott and Tony Pawson. - Life, death and the immune system / Gustav J.V. Nossal. - Cybernetic cells / W. Wayt Bibbs. - Dinosaurs and other monsters. - Rulers of the Jurassic seas / Ryosuke Motani. - The mammals that conquered the seas / Kate Wong. - Breathing life in to Tyrannosaurus rex / Gregory M. Erickson. - Madagascar's Mesozoic secrets / John J. Flynn and Andre R. Wyss. - Which came first, the feather or the bird? / Richard O. Prum and Alan H. Brush. - The terror birds of South America / Larry G. Marshall. - The evolution of life on the Earth / Stephen Jay Gould. - Human evolution. An ancestor to call our own / Kate Wong. - Early Hominid fossils from Africa / Meave Leakey and Alan Walker. - Planet of the apes / David R. Begun. - Once we were not alone / Ian Tattersall. - Out of Africa again ... and again? / Ian Tattersall. - Who were the Neandertals? / Kate Wong. - Food for thought / William R. Leonard. - Skin deep / Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin. - The evolution of human birth / Karen R. Rosenberg and Wenda R. Trevathan. - Once were cannibals / Tim D. White. - If humans were built to last / S. Jay Olshansky, Bruce A. Carnes and Robert N. Butler. - Illustration credits.
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The Evolution of the universe. - The evolution of the universe / P. James Peebles, David N. Schramm, Edwin L. Turner and Richard G. Kron. - The first stars in the universe / Richard B. Larson and Volker Bromm. - Exploring our universe and others / Martin Rees. - Searching for life in our solar system / Bruce M. Jakosky. - The fate of life in the universe / Lawrence M. Krauss and Glenn D. Starkman. - Life's rocky start / Robert M. Hazen. - Misconceptions about the big bang / Charles H. Lineweaver and Tamara M. Davis. - The evolution of the Earth / Claude J. Allegre and Stephen H. Schneider. - Cellular evolution. - Uprooting the tree of life / W. Ford Doolittle. - The birth of complex cells / Christian de Duve. - Viral quasispecies / Manfred Eige. - How cells respond to stress / William J. Welch. - Cell communication : the inside story / John D. Scott and Tony Pawson. - Life, death and the immune system / Gustav J.V. Nossal. - Cybernetic cells / W. Wayt Bibbs. - Dinosaurs and other monsters. - Rulers of the Jurassic seas / Ryosuke Motani. - The mammals that conquered the seas / Kate Wong. - Breathing life in to Tyrannosaurus rex / Gregory M. Erickson. - Madagascar's Mesozoic secrets / John J. Flynn and Andre R. Wyss. - Which came first, the feather or the bird? / Richard O. Prum and Alan H. Brush. - The terror birds of South America / Larry G. Marshall. - The evolution of life on the Earth / Stephen Jay Gould. - Human evolution. An ancestor to call our own / Kate Wong. - Early Hominid fossils from Africa / Meave Leakey and Alan Walker. - Planet of the apes / David R. Begun. - Once we were not alone / Ian Tattersall. - Out of Africa again ... and again? / Ian Tattersall. - Who were the Neandertals? / Kate Wong. - Food for thought / William R. Leonard. - Skin deep / Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin. - The evolution of human birth / Karen R. Rosenberg and Wenda R. Trevathan. - Once were cannibals / Tim D. White. - If humans were built to last / S. Jay Olshansky, Bruce A. Carnes and Robert N. Butler. - Illustration credits.

Genetics and evolution