Into The Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution / Edition 1

Into The Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution / Edition 1

by Sean Carroll
ISBN-10:
0321556712
ISBN-13:
2900321556713
Pub. Date:
09/24/2008
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Into The Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution / Edition 1

Into The Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution / Edition 1

by Sean Carroll
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Overview

Not so long ago, most of the globe was uncharted wilderness. The explorations of the world's deep jungles, vast deserts, stark badlands, frozen polar regions, and countless chains of islands are some of the greatest adventures of recent times, and the discoveries they yielded gave birth to and nourished the most important idea in biology: evolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 2900321556713
Publication date: 09/24/2008
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Sean B. Carroll is Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Among the most prominent biologists working in the world today, Carroll is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, an award-winning author of two highly acclaimed books on science for the general public (Endless Forms Most Beautiful and The Making of the Fittest), a widely known charismatic public speaker, an ardent advocate for science education, and a frequent guest on NOVA and other popular television and radio programs. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 scientific papers on animal development and evolution and of two textbooks.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Part 1 Into The Jungle 1

1 Reverend Darwin's Detour 4

2 Drawing the Line between Monkeys and Kangaroos 35

3 Life Imitates Life 51

Part 2 On The Trail of Ancient Humans 65

4 Java Man 66

5 Where the Dragon Laid Her Eggs 88

Part 3 Always Expect the Unexpected 111

6 The Day the Mesozoic Died 112

7 Miss Latimer's Extraordinary Fish 132

Part 4 Evolution In Action 147

8 A Sickle-Cell Safari 148

9 In Cold Blood: The Tale of the Icefish 166

General Review and Discussion 185

Acknowledgments 187

References and Further Reading 189

Index 203

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