Nature strange and beautiful : how living beings evolved and made the earth a home / Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr., Christian Ziegler.
A beautifully written exploration of how cooperation shaped life on earth, from its single-celled beginnings to complex human societies In this rich, wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert Leigh explores the results of billions of years of evolution at work. Leigh, who has spent five d...
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- How we approach the problem
- Adaptation, individual and social
- Life's common ancestry, and its origin
- Diversification
- Integrating diversity into community
- Heredity, natural selection, and evolution
- Organizing genes for adaptive evolution
- The processes of evolution
- The last transition
- What have we learned, and what is still unknown?
- Bibliographic essay.