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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Riverhead Books,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
