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81) Human evolution
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
Traces past and present theories of human origins and development.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores the origins of humans, including how such developments as Linnaeus' classification system and recent understanding of the human genome have improved scientists' comprehension of evolution.
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The author, a Stanford biologist reveals the surprising origins of the world's most deadly viruses, and how we can overcome catastrophic pandemics. He discussses the complex interactions between humans and viruses, and the threat from viruses that jump from species to species. He tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by side through history; how deadly viruses like HIV, swine flu, and bird flu almost wiped us out in the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all our inventions--our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations--we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society. In Blueprint, Nicholas...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two noted paleontologists present a detailed portrait of the family Canidae across 40 million years of evolution in this illustrated volume.
After decades of research and analysis, paleontologists Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford established the modern framework for understanding the evolutionary relationship of canids. Combining their work with Mauricio Antón's reconstructions of both extinct and extant species,...
After decades of research and analysis, paleontologists Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford established the modern framework for understanding the evolutionary relationship of canids. Combining their work with Mauricio Antón's reconstructions of both extinct and extant species,...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this rich, wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert Leigh explores the results of billions of years of evolution at work. Leigh, who has spent five decades on Panama's Barro Colorado Island reflecting on the organization of various amazingly diverse tropical ecosystems, now shows how selection on "selfish genes" gives rise to complex modes of cooperation and interdependence. With the help of such artists as the celebrated nature photographer...
