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Darwin's doubt the explosive origin of animal life and the case for intelligent design
Charles Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," 530 million years ago many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock....
| Main Author: | Meyer, Stephen C. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
HarperOne,
[2013]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The mystery of the missing fossils
- Darwin's nemesis
- The Burgess bestiary
- Soft bodies and hard facts
- The not missing fossils?
- The genes tell the story?
- The animal tree of life
- Punk eek!
- How to build an animal
- The Cambrian information explosion
- Combinatorial inflation
- The origin of genes and proteins
- Assume a gene
- Complex adaptations and the neo-Darwinian math
- The origin of body plans
- The epigenetic revolution
- After Darwin, what?
- The post-Darwinian world and self-organization
- Other post-neo-Darwinian models
- The possibility of intelligent design
- Signs of design in the Cambrian explosion
- The rules of science
- What's at stake.