Improbable destinies fate, chance, and the future of evolution
A Harvard museum curator draws on the latest breakthroughs in evolutionary biology to examine how tiny, random convergences, from mutations to butterfly sneezes, have triggered remarkable evolutionary changes.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Improbable destinies : |b fate, chance, and the future of evolution / |c Jonathan B. Losos ; illustrated by Marlin Peterson. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-353) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction. The good dinosaur -- Part one. Nature's doppelgängers -- Evolutionary déjà vu -- Replicated reptiles -- Evolutionary idiosyncrasy -- Part two. Experiments in the wild -- The not-so-glacial pace of evolutionary change -- Colorful Trinidad -- Lizard castaways -- From manure to modern science -- Evolution in swimming pools and sandboxes -- Part three. Evolution under the microscope -- Replaying the tape -- Breakthrough in a bottle -- Jots, tittles, and drunken fruit flies -- The human environment -- Conclusion. Fate, chance, and the inevitability of humans. | |
| 520 | |a A Harvard museum curator draws on the latest breakthroughs in evolutionary biology to examine how tiny, random convergences, from mutations to butterfly sneezes, have triggered remarkable evolutionary changes. | ||
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