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Improbable destinies : fate, chance, and the future of evolution
Title:
Improbable destinies : fate, chance, and the future of evolution
Format:
Books
Publication Date(s):
2017
ISBN:
9780399184925
Physical Description:
xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction. The good dinosaur -- Part one. Nature's doppelgängers -- Evolutionary déjà vu -- Replicated reptiles -- Evolutionary idiosyncrasy -- Part two. Experiments in the wild -- The not-so-glacial pace of evolutionary change -- Colorful Trinidad -- Lizard castaways -- From manure to modern science -- Evolution in swimming pools and sandboxes -- Part three. Evolution under the microscope -- Replaying the tape -- Breakthrough in a bottle -- Jots, tittles, and drunken fruit flies -- The human environment -- Conclusion. Fate, chance, and the inevitability of humans.
Summary:
A Harvard museum curator draws on the latest breakthroughs in evolutionary biology to examine how tiny, random convergences, from mutations to butterfly sneezes, have triggered remarkable evolutionary changes.
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