Icons of evolution : an encyclopedia of people, evidence, and controversies / edited by Brian Regal.

Other author Regal, Brian.
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2008.
Description2 volumes (xvii, 687 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits ; 27 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
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Greenwood icons. ^A754920
Contents Vol. 1. Evolution as a paradigm / Olof Ljungström -- Charles Darwin / Bowdoin Van Riper -- T.H. Huxley: The evolution of the bulldog / Lisa Nocks -- Gregor Mendel / Dawn Mooney Digrius -- "Survival of the fittest," / Peter Bowler -- The Neandertals / Marianne Sommer -- Java man / Pat Shipman -- Peking man / Brian Regal -- Peppered moths / David W. Rudge -- The horse series / Christine Janis -- Taung child / Anne Katrine Gjerløff -- The monkey trials / Brian Regal.
Contents Vol 2. The dinosaurs / David Fastovsky -- Archaeopteryx / Bent E.K. Lindow -- The fossil record / Olof Ljungström -- Geologic time scale and radiometric dating / Bowdoin Van Riper -- Piltdown man and the almost men / Brian Regal -- Fruit flies / Jeffrey H. Schwartz -- Neo-Darwinism / Adam S. Wilkins -- Cladistics / Jeffrey H. Schwartz -- Louis Leakey / Anne Katrine Gjerløff -- Lucy / Holly Dunsworth -- "Out of Africa," / Christopher Stringer -- Intelligent design / Brian Regal.
Abstract Offers a set of clear, understandable explanations for the evidence for evolution and why that evidence is so important for the understanding of the origins of life.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [641]-671) and index.
LCCN 2007033049
ISBN9780313339110 (set : alk. paper)
ISBN0313339112 (set : alk. paper)
ISBN9780313339127 (v. 1 : alk. paper)
ISBN0313339120 (v. 1 : alk. paper)
ISBN9780313339134 (v. 2 : alk. paper)
ISBN0313339139 (v. 2 : alk. paper)

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