According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution
is a real phenomenon. And it's no wonder that so many are
skeptical: many of today's biology courses and textbooks dwell on
the mechanisms of evolution--natural selection, genetic drift, and
gene flow--but say little about the evidence that evolution happens
at all. How do we know that species change? Has there really been
enough time for evolution to operate?
With "The Evidence for Evolution," Alan R. Rogers provides an
elegant, straightforward text that details the evidence for
evolution. Rogers covers different levels of evolution, from
within-species changes, which are much less challenging to see and
believe, to much larger ones, say, from fish to amphibian, or from
land mammal to whale. For each case, he supplies numerous lines of
evidence to illustrate the changes, including fossils, DNA, and
radioactive isotopes. His comprehensive treatment stresses recent
advances in knowledge but also recounts the give and take between
skeptical scientists who first asked "how can we be sure" and then
marshaled scientific evidence to attain certainty. "The Evidence
for Evolution" is a valuable addition to the literature on
evolution and will be essential to introductory courses in the life
sciences.
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