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The Discovery Of Evolution

The Discovery Of Evolution

The Discovery Of Evolution Hardback - 1992

by Young, David

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Natural History Museum Publications - Cambridge University Press, 1992. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/VG. 256pp, b/w frontis, 16 pages of colour illustrations, b/w illustrations throughout, index, page margins a little yellowed, spine of the slightly bumped dustjacket faded. A study of 300 years of the development of the theory of evolution, from the work of the early naturalists to the modern synthesis of evolutionary ideas. Chapter headings are : Evolution, Journey's Guide - Puzzles For The Naturalist - Matters Of Place And Time - A Natural History Of Creation - The Species Question - Life's Genealogy And Natural Selection - A Rich Inheritance - Synthesis And Species - Evolution: Truth, Theory Or Myth? - Evolutionary Who's Who.
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  • Title The Discovery Of Evolution
  • Author Young, David
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st edition.
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Natural History Museum Publications - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Publication date 1992
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 61593
  • ISBN 9780521434416 / 0521434416
  • Weight 2.09 lbs (0.95 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.07 x 7.86 x 0.81 in (25.58 x 19.96 x 2.06 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Evolution (Biology) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93116579
  • Dewey Decimal Code 575.009

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David Young invites his readers on a journey of adventure and discovery; a journey for the mind, and an adventure in the realm of ideas. By retracing the steps of men who developed the theory of biological evolution, we see how scientists came to recognize the nature and importance of natural selection. The journey begins in the seventeenth century, when even the most accomplished naturalists knew next to nothing of biology as we understand it today. Steadily increasing knowledge and the quickening pace of research began to uncover much new evidence, and in the middle of the century Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace incorporated this evidence in a comprehensive theory of evolution. In the twentieth century biology has become steadily more specialized, so the book picks out some of the main developments that bring us to studies of evolution being carried out today.

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