Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts And Transitions Through Time (Paperback)

Missing Links was written, in part, in response to pertinent questions raised by none other than Charles Darwin and are continuously asked these days by creationists, individuals who believe that a deity created life on Earth, and that evolution played no important role whatsoever. Some of the questions Missing Links addresses include the following: If specification and evolution explain the numbers of living things on Earth and their diversity of form, then where are all the missing links? Why is not the modern landscape and the fossil record strewn with intermediate species of all kinds? The book begins with an examination of missing links, because there is considerable misunderstanding about the nature of these transitions and what our expectations should be from the fossil record. After laying this groundwork, the heart of the book includes two sections: The first is a primer of evolutionary science and the second provides examples of transitions at all chronological and geographical scales. In Missing Links, Section I is a primer of evolutionary science, particularly as applied to the fossil record, including discussion of how science is done, continental drift and plate tectonics, radiometric and relative dating techniques for rocks and fossils, principles of evolution and speciation, schools of classification, and the ecological context of evolution. Section II provides examples of transitions at all chronological and geographical scales, from ultimate origins of life on Earth to observed changes in the morphology seen in modern time during the lifetime of the observer. There are chapters on whales, horses, voles, fish amphibian and reptile amphibian transitions, the dinosaur-bird connection, and the Pliocene-Pleistocene history of humans. An epilogue responds to Darwin's initial, troubled thoughts about life's risks.

General

Imprint:	Jones And Bartlett Publishers, Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2003
First published:	2004
Authors:	Robert A. Martin
Dimensions:	230 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-7637-2196-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution Promotions
LSN:	0-7637-2196-4
Barcode:	9780763721961

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