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Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the English naturalist from his early years through his expedition aboard the H.M.S. Beagle and the development of his theory of evolution by natural selection.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life?s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documents the story of mid-19th-century explorer Paul Du Chaillu, who after three years in the equatorial wilderness of West Africa emerged with definitive proof of the existence of the mythical gorilla, only to be swept up by the heated debate about Darwin's theory of evolution.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xix, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. This book tells the story of the islands' namesakes--the giant tortoises--as coveted food sources, objects of natural history, and famous icons of conservation and tourism. By doing so, it brings into stark...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman-an entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place-in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 441 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where his ideas on evolution began. We then follow Darwin to Down House, his bustling home of forty years, where he kept porcupine quills at his desk to dissect barnacles, maintained a flock of sixteen pigeon breeds in the dovecote, and cultivated climbing plants in the study, and to Bournemouth, where on one memorable family vacation he fed carnivorous...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 364 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the development and spread of the theory of evolution, from Darwin's "Origin of Species" to the Human Genome Project and beyond, and explains how the process works.
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