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Loading... Evolution (Oxford Readers)by Mark Ridley
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0192892878, Paperback)This reader presents a wide spectrum of views and issues involved in the ever expanding debates about evolution. Can we trace the origin of life? How important is the theory of natural selection? Why did we start talking? Is there an evolutionary argument for the existence of God? It includes extracts which look at: the roles of mutations, inbreeding, crossbreeding, and gene selection; the puzzle of sex; the evolutionary consequences of being a plant, and the means of measuring time by using molecular clocks. With articles by Darwin, Fisher, Haldane, Dawkins, Gould, and Medawar amongst others, this Oxford reader offers a combination of classic accounts and modern research which should appeal both to students and a broad general audience.(retrieved from Amazon Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:51:05 -0400) No library descriptions found. |
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Six selected pages from each of 64 classic authors. Fantastic!
The book is divided into 10 sections,
each with an introduction by the editor, Mark Ridley.
Very helpful!
There is no way a book like this can be summarized.
It would be like summarizing an encyclopedia.Odd that an author would publish two very different books with identical titles.
I write here of the one that is the Oxford Reader.