عنوان

Evolution :

شابک

1851683712 (pbk.)

شماره

b514694

عنوان اصلي

Evolution :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

a beginner's guide /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Burton S. Guttman

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Oxford :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oneworld,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

[2005]

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2005

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xii, 203 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

22 cm

عنوان فروست

Oneworld beginners' guides

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Diversity, science, and evolution -- Explaining diversity -- The logic of science -- Then what about the "theory of evolution"? -- Conceptions and misconceptions -- Stories in the rocks -- Geology becomes a science -- Ages and time -- Comparative anatomy -- Impediments to the idea of evolution -- Biology - some basics -- What are organisms? -- Taking a close look at the world -- A modern way to understand biology -- Heredity and Structure -- What is a genome? -- Cells -- Polymers -- Proteins -- Nucleic acids -- Evolution -- Historicity: carrying your story with you -- Origins -- Early cellular evolution -- Animal evolution -- Plant evolution -- Summary and foreword -- A broad view of the process -- The major features of evolution -- The modern synthesis -- What is a species? -- A big picture: the major features of evolution -- Converging and diverging -- Taxonomy, cladistics, and drawing family trees -- Populations and selection -- What is natural selection? -- Populations are variable -- Populations may have different forms -- The idea of a Mendelian population -- The effects of selection -- Gene frequencies may change rapidly in small populations -- Sources of variation -- Mutation is the source of all genetic change -- Sex and variation -- Duplication and diversification -- Horizontal transmission -- Looking ahead: chance and necessity -- Ecosystems: getting along with the neighbors -- Adaptation and fitness -- The concept of an ecological niche -- Gause's principle and its complications -- Adaptations may be morphological, behavioral, or biochemical -- Adaptation and exaptation -- Different ways for selection to act -- The realm of the Red Queen -- Proteins and the subtlety of editing -- Sickle-cell hemoglobin as an adaptation -- How little changes can make big differences -- Living here may be different from living over there -- Fitness generally changes geographically -- Pushing the edge -- Making new species -- Some difficulties in defining species -- Problems with the criterion of interbreeding -- The mechanism of speciation -- After separation, the test -- Evolution as opportunism and bricolage -- Speciation and opportunism on islands -- Adaptive radiation and genetic drift -- Plant evolution through hybridization and polyploidy -- Development and macroevolution -- Being multicellular -- How to build an animal -- The idea of proteins that regulate genes -- Making heads, tails, and segments -- Homeotic genes: producing the organs of the body -- Flexibility and stability -- The secret is in the timing -- Human evolution -- Primates -- Anthropoids and apes -- Early anthropoid evolution -- Australopithecines, the "southern ape-men" -- Why did our ancestors stand upright? -- The first members of Homo -- Homo erectus arrives -- Neanderthal and later humans -- Modern humans -- Probability and entropy -- The improbability of life -- Entropy -- The entropy of evolution and of living -- The problem of creationism -- Creationism in historical context -- Beliefs of "scientific creationism" -- The age of the Earth -- Sedimentary deposits and continental drift -- Coal deposits -- The ice ages -- "Intelligent design theory"

بدون عنوان

0

موضوع مستند نشده

Evolution.

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Guttman, Burton S.

تاريخ عمليات

20060831102542.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y