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Informationen zum Autor Bill Nye is a scientist, engineer, comedian, and inventor. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University where he studied under Carl Sagan, and worked on the 747 as an engineer at Boeing before creating and hosting his much-loved Emmy award-winning PBS/Discovery Channel show Bill Nye the Science Guy . He holds six Honorary Doctorate degrees from Lehigh University, Willamette University, Quinnipiac University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Goucher College, and Johns Hopkins, and teaches at Cornell regularly as a visiting professor. Klappentext The New York Times best seller by the host of Bill Nye the Science Guy, with a brand new chapter for the paperback edition! "Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found."-Bill Nye Sparked by a controversial debate in February 2014, Bill Nye has set off on an energetic campaign to spread awareness of evolution and the powerful way it shapes our lives. In Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation , he explains why race does not really exist; evaluates the true promise and peril of genetically modified food; reveals how new species are born, in a dog kennel and in a London subway; takes a stroll through 4.5 billion years of time; and explores the new search for alien life, including aliens right here on Earth. With infectious enthusiasm, Bill Nye shows that evolution is much more than a rebuttal to creationism; it is an essential way to understand how nature works-and to change the world. It might also help you get a date on a Saturday night. Zusammenfassung In Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation! Bill Nye explains why race does not really exist; evaluates the true promise and peril of genetically modified food; reveals how new species are born! in a dog kennel and in a London subway; takes a stroll through 4.5 billion years of time; and explores the new search for alien life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Me and You and Evolution, Too 2. The Great Creationism Debate 3. Creation and the Second Law of Thermodynamics 4. Bottom-Up Design 5. Deep Time-Dive in 6. On the Origin of Evolution 7. Lamarck and His Not-Acquired Traits 8. My Prom and Sexual Selection 9. The Red Queen 10. Dogs Are All Dogs 11. The Tree of Life-Or Is It a Bush? 12. Biodiversity Comes in the Territory 13. Fossil Records and Explosions 14. Mass Extinctions and You 15. Ancient Dinosaurs and the Asteroid Test 16. Punctuated Equilibrium 17. Contingency, Bottlenecking, Founding 18. Mosquitoes in the Tube 19. Convergence, Analogy, and Homology 20. What Good Is Half a Wing? 21. Human Bodies Are Walking Talking and Good Enough 22. Evolution Is Why We Don't Believe in Evolution 23. Micro or Macro-It's Evolution 24. Michael Faraday and the Joy of Discovery 25. Medicine and You-Evolution at the Doctor's Office 26. Antibiotic Drug Resistance-Fight Back 27. The Urge of Altruism 28. Games Species Play 29. Costly Signals 30. Genetically Modified Foods-What the GMF? 31. Human Cloning-Not Cool 32. Our Skin Colors 33. Is the Human Species Still Evolving? 34. Astrobiologically Speaking-Is There Anyone Out There? 35. The Sparks That Started It All 36. A Second Genesis-of Life? 37. Life's Cosmic Imperative ...
