Do Elephants Have Knees? And Other Stories of Darwinian Origins

Informationen zum Autor Charles R. Ault Klappentext Charles R. Ault Jr. is Professor Emeritus at the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Wonderful Relationships: Darwinian Stories of Origins 1. "Curtiosity's" Child: Bobby Darwin's Impertinent Early Years 2. Darwin and the Pampas Pirates: Adventure in Search of Treasure 3. Fossils, Fools & Faults: Rounding South America 4. Irritating Worms: The Elderly Darwin Fascinated by the Intelligence of Worms 5. A Lungfish Walked into the Zoo: On the Origin of Limbs from Lobe-Fins 6. Out on a Limb: Sketching Bone by Bone from Joint to Joint at the Zoo 7. Nosey Elephants: A Tale of Trunks and Tusks 8. The Bearduck of Baleen: On the Origin of New Traits from Existing Ones 9. The Saga of Mooshmael: The Logic of Family Relationships 10. The Higgledy-Piggledy Whale: Leviathan's Walk, Paddle, and Gallop to the Sea 11. Archaic Chickengators: Amniotic Archosaur Ancestors of Dinosaurs and Birds 12. Coral Pigs and Tide Pool Sheep: Novel Selections of Behavior and Anatomy Epilogue. Femurs and Footprints: On the Trail of Megabeasts

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• Authors: Charles R. Ault, Charles R Ault
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.09.2016
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology
• EAN: 9781501704673
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-0467-3
• Pages: 240