The Evolutionary World: How Adaptation Explains Everything from Seashells to Civilization

by Geerat Vermeij and Geerat J. Vermeij

Book Overview

""""One of the master naturalists of our time" (American Scientist) reveals how evolutionary theory explains and affects not just the natural world but our society---and its future."Evolution has outgrown its original home in biology and geology. "The Evolutionary World" shows how evolution---descent with modification---is a concept that organizes, explains, and predicts a multitude of unconnected facts and phenomena. Adaptation plays a role not only...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031259108X
• ISBN13: 9780312591083
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"