Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould (Author)
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Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century

Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
Howard Bloom (Author)
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As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement.-DAVID SMILLIE, Visiting Professor of Zoology, Duke University In this extraordinary follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom-one of today's preeminent thinkers-offers us a bold rewrite of the evolutionary saga. He shows how plants and animals (including humans) have evolved together as components of a worldwide learning machine. He describes the network of life on Earth as one that is, in fact, a ""complex adaptive system,"" a global brain in which each of us plays a sometimes conscious, sometimes unknowing role. and he reveals that the World Wide Web is just the latest step in the development of this brain. These are theories as important as they are radical. Informed by twenty years of interdisciplinary research, Bloom takes us on a spellbinding journey back to the big bang to let us see how its fires forged primordial sociality. As he brings us back via surprising routes, we see how our earliest bacterial ancestors built multitrillion-member research and development teams a full 3.5 billion years ago. We watch him unravel the previously unrecognized strands of interconnectedness woven by crowds of trilobites, hunting packs of dinosaurs, feathered flying lizards gathered in flocks, troops of baboons making communal decisions, and adventurous tribes of protohumans spreading across continents but still linked by primitive forms of information networking. We soon find ourselves reconsidering our place in the world. Along the way, Bloom offers us exhilarating insights into the strange tricks of body and mind that have organized a variety of life forms: spiny lobsters, which, during the Paleozoic age, participated in communal marching rituals; and bees, which, during the age of dinosaurs, conducted collective brainwork. This fascinating tour continues on to the sometimes brutal subculture wars that have spurred the growth of human civilization since the Stone Age. Bloom shows us how culture shapes our infant brains, immersing us in a matrix of truth and mass delusion that we think of as reality.
Global Brain is more than just a brilliantly original contribution to the ongoing debate on the inner workings of evolution. It is a ""grand vision,"" says the eminent evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, a work that transforms our very view of who we are and why.

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• Published on: 2001-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.05" h x 6.58" w x 8.86" l, 1.05 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About the History of Life

Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About the History of Life
Niles Eldredge (Author), Carl Zimmer (Introduction)

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"This book is a splendidly illustrated and thoughtfully constructed account of one of the greatest ideas ever conceived by the human mind -- evolution. Eldredge has cleverly combined our knowledge of living organisms with instructive insights into the fossil record to convincingly argue that evolution is, indeed, the grand unifying idea of biology."
-- Donald C. Johanson, Founder of the Institute of Human Origins, and author of From Lucy to Language

Extinction and Evolution recounts the work and discoveries of Niles Eldredge, one of the world's most renowned paleontologists, whose research overturned Charles Darwin's theory of evolution as a slow and inevitable process, as published in On the Origin of Species in 1859. Darwin had concluded that evolutionary changes happened very slowly over millions of years. Eldredge's work, however, convinced him that Darwin was wrong and that major evolution of life forms does not happen to any significant degree until after a mass extinction event, thus disproving the traditional view of evolution.

Eldredge's groundbreaking work is now accepted as the definitive statement of how life as we know it evolved on Earth. This book chronicles how Eldredge made his discoveries and traces the history of life through the lenses of paleontology, geology, ecology, anthropology, biology, genetics, zoology, mammalogy, herpetology, entomology and botany. While rigorously accurate, the text is accessible, engaging and free of jargon.

Extinction and Evolution features 160 beautiful color plates that bridge the gap between science and art, and show more than 200 different fossil specimens, including photographs of some of the most significant fossil discoveries of recent years. This is a book with appeal to a broad general audience, including natural history readers and students.

• Rank: #407574 in Books
• Published on: 2014-09-02
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

The Monkey's Bridge: Mysteries of Evolution in Central America

The Monkey's Bridge: Mysteries of Evolution in Central America
David Rains Wallace (Author)
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This exploration of Central America combines vivid travel writing, reflections on the landscape and culture and meditations on the ecosystems unique to this region.'

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• Published on: 1997-10
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.50" h x 6.50" w x 1.00" l, 1.30 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 277 pages

Molecular Evolution

Molecular Evolution
Wen-Hsiung Li (Author)
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This text describes the dynamics of evolutionary change at the molecular level, the driving forces behind the evolutionary process, and the effects of the various molecular mechanisms on the structure of genes and genomes. It also explains the methodology involved in dealing with molecular data.

• Rank: #835692 in Books
• Brand: Brand: Sinauer Associates
• Published on: 1997-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.31" h x 7.27" w x 10.20" l, 2.26 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 432 pages

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