MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 04042nam a22002658a 4500
001 2008043807
003 DLC
005 20081021153028.0
008 081008s2009 ilu b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2008043807
020 $a9780226757780 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0226757781 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aICU/DLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQH367$b.S566 2009
082 00 $a576.8$222
100 1 $aSilvertown, Jonathan W.
245 10 $a99% ape :$bhow evolution adds up /$cJonathan Silvertown.
246 3 $aNinety-nine percent ape
260 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2009.
263 $a0904
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aOrigins -- 99% ape -- Evolution liberates -- Evolutionary trees -- Darwin, apes & Victorians -- Darwin's insights -- What's in 1%? -- Darwin's brilliant idea -- Design without a designer -- Canine friends in sickness and in health -- Natural selection -- The tree of life -- Scientific classification of species -- Cracking the mystery of species -- Ideas on trial -- The geological timescale -- Darwin's evolving ideas -- Branches and trees -- Enter the star witness: DNA -- First life -- The meaning of life -- Life's first spark -- Earliest signs -- Life in hot water -- Extraterrestrials -- African genesis -- In the beginning -- The "prime" animals -- History from molecules -- Body building -- An eye for Darwin -- Variety -- Eye design -- Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue -- A fish out of water -- Becoming terrestrial -- Fishy relations -- Hiding in the deep blue sea -- Extinct and extant amphibians -- Fish fingers -- Resurrecting genes -- Many were called, few were chosen -- A whale of a problem -- After the dinosaurs -- Aquatic for life -- Whale characters -- Whale origins -- Sines point the way -- Ancient whales -- Steps to leglessness -- Feathered fossils -- Fossilized families -- German aviation and Chinese dragons -- Chicken feathers -- Forming feathers: an orderly death -- Genes and fossils reconciled -- New structures, same old genes -- Diversity -- In the genes -- The family face -- Chromosome choreography -- Genes for every occasion -- Why be different? -- New species from old -- On the origin of "what" -- Losing touch -- Speedy speciation -- Knowing your own -- Homebound lives -- The leaky boundaries of species -- Chromosome doubling: a quick recipe for greens -- No sex, please, we're budding -- Fossils and species -- Darwin's finches -- Evolution isles -- The fame of the finch -- From one species to fifteen -- Beaks and seeds -- Beaks and genes -- A lifetime's work -- The flowers of evolution -- First plants -- Russian dolls and malaria -- The greening of the land -- The rise of the flowering plants -- New patterns among the green branches of the tree of life -- A big flower with small beginnings -- Madagascan star orchid -- The race from Africa -- The end of the line for homo -- The human saga written in DNA -- Technological advances -- Oil-and-water, or a cocktail? -- The y in Asia -- Neanderthals: a skeleton in our cupboard? -- The race from Africa, timed by the molecular clock -- Here and now -- Catch me if you can -- Truce or consequences -- Friend and foe -- Evolving disease -- Gene swapping -- Ideal homes for microbes -- Dangerous responses -- Hitchhiking between hosts -- Lousy evolution -- Darwin in mind -- Evolutionary psychology -- Hunter-gatherer hangovers -- Culture club -- Why be good? -- Good behaviour -- Gameplay -- The origin of morals -- In the public eye -- For as you were when first your eye I eyed -- The science of evolution -- Evolution versus creation: science and non-science -- The scopes monkey trial -- Creationism in disguise -- Evolution and religion -- Logos and mythos -- What next? -- Are we still evolving? -- Spectacles and evolution -- Old age: when natural selection retires -- The long view -- Evolution in the anthropocene.
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)$vPopular works.