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Description Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Evolution (4th Ed) by Dr. Michael Hutchins Gale | March 2011 | ISBN-10: 1414486693 | PDF | 371 pages | 22.2 mb http://www.amazon.com/Grzimeks-Animal-Life-Encyclopedia-Evolution/dp/1414486693 Based on the acclaimed print series, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd Ed., this new full-color volume covers evolution in detail. Written for students and general researchers, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Evolution explores its topic from a scientific viewpoint. The volume is also the first to include comprehensive coverage of recent ideas and discoveries in the field. Each of the 36 entries was written by a nationally renowned subject specialist and peer-reviewed by the editor-in-chief and an editorial board of academic experts specializing in evolutionary thought. Each entry contains an authoritative and clear treatment of the topic, comprehensive in both scope and coverage. Entries also contain full-color images to complement, clarify and add detail to the text. Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix The relevance of evolution to contemporary society . . . . xi Contributing writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Topic overviews Scientific methods and human knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Creation stories: The human journey to understand the origins of life on Earth . . . . . . .9 History of evolutionary thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Charles Darwin: A life of discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Mechanisms of evolutionary change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Origins of the universe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Origins of life on Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Speciation: The origins of diversity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Sexual reproduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Species nomenclature, classification and problems of application . . . . 95 The fossil record: A window to the past . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 What does the fossil record tell us about evolution?. . . . 111 Biogeography: The distribution of life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Genetics: The blueprint of life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Genes and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Evolutionary ecology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Adaptation and evolutionary change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Sexual selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Kin selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Coevolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Optimal reproductive tactics and life history theory . . . . 201 Evolutionary physiology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Industrial melanism in moths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Galápagos finches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Artificial selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Convergent evolution and ecological equivalence. . . . . . 235 Evolution of the animal eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Evolution of flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Evolution of limblessness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Canid evolution: From wolf to dog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Dinosaurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Megafauna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Non-human primate and human evolution . . . . . . . . . . 299 Evolution of the brain and nervous system . . . . . . . . . . 311 Evolution of language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 Evolutionary medicine and the biology of health . . . . . . 325 Evolution and biodiversity conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Further reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 Related Torrents
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