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Evolution a Scientific American reader

eBook, English, c2006
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, c2006
1 online resource (vii, 355 p. :) ill., maps.
9780226742694, 9780226742687, 0226742687, 0226742695
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The evolution of the universe / P. James Peebles, David N. Schramm, Edwin L. Turner and Richard G. Kron
The first stars in the universe / Richard B. Larson and Volker Bromm
Exploring our universe and others / Martin Rees
Searching for life in our solar system / Bruce M. Jakosky
The fate of life in the universe / Lawrence M. Krauss and Glenn D. Starkman
Life's rocky start / Robert M. Hazen
Misconceptions about the big bang / Charles H. Lineweaver and Tamara M. Davis
The evolution of the Earth / Claude J. Allègre and Stephen H. Schneider
Uprooting the tree of life / W. Ford Doolittle
The birth of complex cells / Christian de Duve
Viral quasispecies / Manfred Eigen
How cells respond to stress / William J. Welch
Cell communication : the inside story / John D. Scott and Tony Pawson
Life, death and the immune system / Gustav J.V. Nossal
Cybernetic cells / W. Wayt Bibbs
Rulers of the Jurassic seas / Ryosuke Motani
The mammals that conquered the seas / Kate Wong
Breathing life in to Tyrannosaurus rex / Gregory M. Erickson
Madagascar's Mesozoic secrets / John J. Flynn and André R. Wyss
Which came first, the feather or the bird? / Richard O. Prum and Alan H. Brush
The terror birds of South America / Larry G. Marshall
The evolution of life on the Earth / Stephen Jay Gould
An ancestor to call our own / Kate Wong
Early Hominid fossils from Africa / Meave Leakey and Alan Walker
Planet of the apes / David R. Begun
Once we were not alone / Ian Tattersall
Out of Africa again ... and again? / Ian Tattersall
Who were the Neandertals? / Kate Wong
Food for thought / William R. Leonard
Skin deep / Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin
The evolution of human birth / Karen R. Rosenberg and Wenda R. Trevathan
Once were cannibals / Tim D. White
If humans were built to last / S. Jay Olshansky, Bruce A. Carnes and Robert N. Butler