Evolution: A Scientific American ReaderScientific American University of Chicago Press, 2008 M09 15 - 312 páginas From the Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925 to the court ruling against the Dover Area School Board’s proposed intelligent design curriculum in 2005, few scientific topics have engendered as much controversy—or grabbed as many headlines—as evolution. And since the debate shows no signs of abating, there is perhaps no better time to step back and ask: What is evolution? Defined as the gradual process by which something changes into a different and usually more complex and efficient form, evolution explains the formation of the universe, the nature of viruses, and the emergence of humans. A first-rate summary of the actual science of evolution, this Scientific American reader is a timely collection that gives readers an opportunity to consider evolution’s impact in various settings. |
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... discovery will most likely be au- tomated. Astronomers will focus their attention on heavily processed statistics for each population of objects they are studying and in this way find the best examples—for instance, the planets in other ...
... Discovery of Alien Solar Systems. Free Press, 1997. Craig J. Hogan. The Little Book of the Big Bang: A Cosmic Primer. Copernicus, 1998. Searching for Life in Our Solar System bruce m. jakosky exploring our universe and others 31.
... discovery of life on other planets. To search for life in our solar system, we need to start at home. Because Earth is our only example of a planet endowed with life, we can use it to understand the conditions needed to spawn life ...
... discovery of the expansion of the universe in the 1920s allayed this concern , because expansion prevents the universe from reaching such an equilibrium . But few cosmologists thought through the other implica- tions for life in an ever ...
... discovery challenged conventional wisdom about life's fragility and, perhaps, its ori- gins. Until then, most scientists had assumed that life spawned at or near the benign ocean surface as a result of chemistry powered by sunlight ...
Contenido
Cellular Evolution | 85 |
Dinosaurs and Other Monsters | 169 |
Human Evolution | 249 |
Contents | 362 |
Illustration Credits | 364 |
The Evolution of the Universe | 1 |
Cellular Evolution | 85 |
Dinosaurs and Other Monsters | 169 |
Human Evolution | 249 |