Why Evolution Is True

Name: Why Evolution Is True
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ISBN: 9780670020539

ISBN-10: 0670020532

ISBN-13: 9780670020539

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jerry A. Coyne, Jerry Coyne

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Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant intelligent design, there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentionedthe evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection. Even Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, while extolling the beauty of evolution and examining case studies, have not focused on the evidence itself. Yet the proof is vast, varied, and magnificent, drawn from many different fields of science. Scientists are observing species splitting into two and are finding more and more fossils capturing change in the pastdinosaurs that have sprouted feathers, fish…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/22/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Biology professor Jerry Allen Coyne was born in 1949 and teaches in the University of Chicago's Department of Ecology and Evolution. Coyne was the 1971 class valedictorian at the College of William & Mary. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University and an NIH postdoc in genetics at UC Davis. Coyne has been the Vice President of the Society for the Study of Evolution and an associate editor of Evolution and The American Naturalist. Coyne's work has been published in scientific journals as well as The New York Times and The New Republic. He is known for his opposition to the creationist theory of intelligent design. Coyne wrote the bestselling book Why Evolution is True and…



Preface


Introduction



What Is Evolution?



Written in the Rocks



Remnants: Vestiges, Embryos, and Bad Design



The Geography of Life



The Engine of Evolution



How Sex Drives Evolution



The Origin of Species



What About Us?



Evolution Redux


Notes


Glossary


Suggestions for Further Reading


References


Illustration Credits


Index