Science: Evolution

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1 Evolution and the Nature of Science
2 The Evidence for Biological Evolution
3 Creationist Perspectives
4 Conclusion

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What are science-religion debates really about? -- Galileo and the philosophy of science -- Does God act in nature? -- Darwin and evolution -- Creationism and intelligent design -- Mind and morality.

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Introduction -- The history behind Inherit the wind -- The rising religious opposition to Darwin -- The free speech train -- The Scopes pre-game show -- The Scopes trial -- The Scopes appeal -- The history of religion in U.S. public schools -- Religion and the establishment clause after Scopes -- Evolution back in the courts -- Adam and Eve and evolution -- The rise and fall of "creation science" -- Creation science born again as intelligent design -- Why some hate evolution: the wedge document revelations -- The endorsement test and the "informed, reasonable observer" -- The Dover policy on teaching evolution -- The Dover verdict -- The aftershocks of Dover -- What next? -- The long view.

PRINT FORMAT. Beyond any reasonable doubt -- The bloodless fish of Bouvet Island -- The everyday math of evolution: chance, selection, and time -- Immortal genes: running in place for eons -- Making the new from the old -- Fossil genes: broken pieces of yesterday’s life -- Déjà vu: how and why evolution repeats itself -- Our flesh and blood: arms races, the human race, and natural selection -- The making and evolution of complexity -- Seeing and believing -- The palm trees of Wyoming

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Chapter 1: Rocks, Time, and Fossils
Chapter 2: Evolutionary Processes
Chapter 3: The Tree of Life
Chapter 4: In the Beginning
Chapter 5: The Paleozoic: “Ancient Life”
Chapter 6: The Age of Dinosaurs
Chapter 7: The Age of Mammals
Chapter 8: Of Whales and Primates
Chapter 9: Walkers and Toolmakers
Chapter 10: A Cognitive Revolution

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CHAPTER 1 Evolutionary Processes
CHAPTER 2 Fossils and Ancient Artifacts
CHAPTER 3 On Their Own Two Feet
CHAPTER 4 Emergence of the Genus Homo
CHAPTER 5 Getting Brainier
CHAPTER 6 Modern Human Origins
CHAPTER 7 Settled Life

Electronic book. Preface : Homo sapiens, the rational animal -- Evolution, genetics, and systematics -- The evolution of hominoids -- The hominin lineage -- Miocene and Pliocene genera and species -- Pliocene hominins : South Africa and the Rift Valley -- The Pliocene cladogenesis : paranthropus versus homo -- The radiation of homo -- Evolutionary characteristics of the erectus grade -- The late-Pleistocene transition -- The uniqueness of being human.

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Part I: Introduction
Part II: The history and variation of human genes
Part III: Natural selection and evolutionary conflicts
Part IV: Pathogens: resistance, virulence, variation, and emergence
Part V: Noninfectious and degenerative disease

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I. Evolutionary Biology of Microbial-Host Interactions
II. Evolutionary Genetics of Microbial Pathogens
III. Evolutionary Biology of Drug Resistance
IV. Evolutionary Pathogenicity of Gram-Negative Bacteria
V. Evolutionary Pathogenicity of Gram-Positive and Related Bacteria

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What is evolution -- Written in the rocks -- Remnants: vestiges, embryos, and bad design -- The geography of life -- The engine of evolution -- How sex drives evolution -- The origin of species -- What about us? -- Evolution redux.

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1. Why are people?
2. The replicators
3. Immortal coils
4. The gene machine
5. Aggression: stability and the selfish machine
6. Genesmanship
7. Family planning
8. Battle of the generations
9. Battle of the sexes
10. You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours
11. Memes: the new replicators
12. Nice guys finish first
13. The long reach of the gene

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1 Introduction
2 Time and classification
3 Evolution of the mammal-like reptiles
4 Evolution of mammalian biology
5 The Mesozoic mammals
6 Living and fossil marsupials
7 Living and fossil placentals

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