An edition of 99% ape
(2009)
99% ape
how evolution adds up
by Jonathan W. Silvertown
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99% ape: how evolution adds up
2009, The University of Chicago Press
in English
0226757781 9780226757780
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Table of Contents
Origins
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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