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Evolution - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover)
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Evolution - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover)
Series: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
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Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not
only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope
also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior-who
we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures-and
greatly impacts modern advancements in medicine and conservation
biology. Perhaps its most important claim for science is its
ability to provide an overarching framework that integrates the
many life sciences into a single unified whole. Yet,
evolution-evolutionary biology in particular-has been, and
continues to be, regarded with suspicion by many. Understanding how
and why evolution works, and what it can tell us, is perhaps the
single most important contribution to the public perception of
science. This book provides an overview of the basic theory and
showcases how widely its consequences reverberate across the life
sciences, the social sciences and even the humanities. In this
book, Robin Dunbar uses examples drawn from plant life, animals and
humans to illustrate these processes. Evolutionary science has
important advantages. Most of science deals with the microscopic
world that we cannot see and invariably have difficulty
understanding, but evolution deals with the macro-world in which we
live and move. That invariably makes it much easier for the lay
audience to appreciate, understand and enjoy. Evolution: What
Everyone Needs to Know (R) takes a broad approach to evolution,
dealing both with the core theory itself and its impact on
different aspects of the world we live in, from the iconic debates
of the nineteenth century, to viruses and superbugs, to human
evolution and behavior.
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