How Evolution Shapes Our Lives - Essays on Biology and Society

Zusatztext "This is a collection to be savored and handed out to students, friends, and critics. Evolution is terrific science, a true testament to the human spirit, and this volume shows why." ---Michael Ruse, Quarterly Review of Biology Informationen zum Autor Jonathan B. Losos is the Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America and Curator of Herpetology at Harvard University. Richard E. Lenski is the John Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University. Zusammenfassung It is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only in "nature," or that is so slow that its ongoing impact is virtually nonexistent when viewed from the perspective of a single human lifetime. But we now know that when natural selection is strong, evolutionary change can be very rapid. In this book, some of th

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• Authors: Jonathan B. Losos, Jonathan B. Lenski Losos, Jonathan B. Losos Lenski Losos
• Assisted by: Richard Lenski (Editor), Richard E. Lenski (Editor), Lenski Richard E. (Editor), Jonathan Losos (Editor), Jonathan B. Losos (Editor), Jonathan B. Losos Losos (Editor), Losos Jonathan B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2016
• EAN: 9780691171876
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17187-6
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Evolution / Evolutionary biology