The evolutionary world : how adaptation explains everything from seashells to civilization / Geerat J. Vermeij.
- Vermeij, Geerat J., 1946-
- Date:
- 2010
- Books
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Description
This book shows how evolution is a concept that organizes, explains, and predicts a multitude of unconnected facts and phenomena. Adaptation plays a role not only in the development of new species but in the development of human civilization. The author presents a new argument for evolution's broader importance.--[book jacket]
Publication/Creation
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2010.
Physical description
xix, 314 pages ; 25 cm
Contributors
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The evolutionary way of knowing -- Deciphering nature's codebook -- On imperfection -- Taming unpredictability -- The evolution of order -- The complexity of life and the origin of meaning -- The secrets of grass: interdependence and its discontents -- Nature's housing market, or why nothing happens in isolation -- Dispatches from a warmer world -- The search for sources and sinks -- Invaders, incumbents, and a changing of the guard -- The arrow of time and the struggle for life -- History and the human future.
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Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionQH546 2010V47eOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780312591083
- 031259108X