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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
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
93 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this well-illustrated book, six modern animals are compared to their ancient ancestors to answer questions like: Why did they change? What was their world like? How do scientists make such connections?
87) The book of life
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
BONUS: This edition contains a The Coral Thief discussion guide and an excerpt from Rebecca Stott's Ghostwalk.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND BOOKLIST
Paris, 1815. Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has arrived to study anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes--only to realize that his letters of introduction and precious coral specimens, on which his tenure
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The source of the earth's great variety of animals was a scientific mystery until Charles Darwin proposed the idea of natural selection. Nova presents breakthroughs in a new science nicknamed "evo devo" that are linking the enigma of origins to another of nature's mysteries, the development of embryos.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church. To some in the church, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution has rejected biblical teaching and is therefore thought of as a heretic....
98) Life: the first four billion years : the story of life from the big bang to the evolution of humans
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
75 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 36 cm
Language
English
Description
Before humans took their first steps, there were billions of years of vibrant and varied life-forms on Earth. Discover the story of our planet during this time, from the formation of the universe to the first mammals and all the incredible life that flourished in between. Covering ice ages and fossils, the first life in the sea and on land, the time of the dinosaurs, and the rise of mammals, Martin Jenkins navigates through millennia of prehistory...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nearly a century ago, famed liberal attorney Clarence Darrow defended schoolteacher John Scopes in a blockbuster legal proceeding that brought the attention of the entire country to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee. Darrow's seminal defense of freedom of speech helped form the legal bedrock on which our civil liberties depend today. Expertly researched, eye-opening, and stirring, The Trial of the Century calls upon our past to unite Americans...
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 17
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Darwin's essential trip to the Galápagos, to the most contemporary studies in sociobiology, this work takes listeners both into the field and laboratories of the world's greatest evolutionary scientists, and shows how the theory of evolution has itself evolved.
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