Some Assembly Required
Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
(Sprache: Englisch)
The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth--a new view of the evolution of human and animal life that explains how the incredible diversity of life on...
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The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth--a new view of the evolution of human and animal life that explains how the incredible diversity of life on our planet came to be.Over billions of years, ancient fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that fly, and apelike primates evolved into humans that walk on two legs, talk, and write. For more than a century, paleontologists have traveled the globe to find fossils that show how such changes have happened.
We have now arrived at a remarkable moment-prehistoric fossils coupled with new DNA technology have given us the tools to answer some of the basic questions of our existence: How do big changes in evolution happen? Is our presence on Earth the product of mere chance? This new science reveals a multibillion-year evolutionary history filled with twists and turns, trial and error, accident and invention.
In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins of life's immense diversity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Some Assembly Required “
Prologue ix1. Five Words 3
2. Embryonic Ideas 28
3. Maestro in the Genome 60
4. Beautiful Monsters 92
5. Copycats 124
6. Our Inner Battlefield 146
7. Loaded Dice 168
8. Mergers and Acquisitions 193
Epilogue 215
Further Reading and Notes 219
Acknowledgments 251
Illustration Credits 255
Index 257
Autoren-Porträt von Neil Shubin
NEIL SHUBIN is the author of Some Assembly Required, Your Inner Fish, and The Universe Within. He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. He lives in Chicago.
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- Autor: Neil Shubin
- 2020, 267 Seiten, mit Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 14,2 x 21,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Random House LLC US
- ISBN-10: 1101871334
- ISBN-13: 9781101871331
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.03.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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