The Joy of Science: An Examination of How Scientists Ask and Answer Questions Using the Story of Evolution as a Paradigm

by Richard A. Lockshin

Book Overview

Chapter 1: The Origin of the Earth and of Species of Animals and Plants as Seen Before the Enlightenment.- Chapter 2: The Seashells on the Mountaintop.- Chapter 3: Aristotle's and Linnaeus' Classifications of Living Creatures.- Chapter 4: Natural Selection: the Second Half of Darwin's Hypothesis.- Chapter 5: Darwin's Hypothesis.- Chapter 6: The stuff of Inheritance: DNA, RNA, and Mutations.- Chapter 7: The Story of our Planet.- Chapter 8: Competition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048175356
• ISBN13: 9789048175352
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"