Evolution : A Very Short Introduction
by Brian Charlesworth, Deborah Charlesworth
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This text is about the central role of evolution in shaping the nature and diversity of the living world. It describes the processes of natural selection, how adaptations arise, and how new species form, as well as summarizing the evidence for evolution.Tags
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- Canonical title
- Evolution : A Very Short Introduction
- Original publication date
- 2003
- People/Characters
- Charles Darwin [Charles Robert: 1809-1882]
- Dedication
- To John Maynard Smith
- First words
- The consensus among the scientific community is that the Earth is a planet orbiting a fairly typical star, one of many billions of stars in a galaxy among billions of galaxies in an expanding universe of enormous size, which ... (show all)originated about 14 billion years ago.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)If we fail to do this, our own species could become extinct, along with many other wonderful living creatures.
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- English, German
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