Arguing for Evolution
An Encyclopedia for Understanding Science
- 348 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This timely encyclopedia presents an arsenal of evidence for evolution that goes beyond the typical textbook examples. Arguing for Evolution: An Encyclopedia for Understanding Science provides readers with a single source for the scientific evidence supporting evolution. The book shows how scientists have tested the predictions of evolutionary theory and created an unshakeable foundation of evidence supporting its truth. As such, it demonstrates how evolution serves as a case study for understanding the scientific method and presents a logical model for scientific inquiry. The evidence for evolution is presented historically and topically in an accessible, example-rich, and logical format, using an arsenal of examples that goes beyond the typical textbook matter. The chapters are structured around a series of hypotheses that the authors put to the test, amassing evidence on fossils, comparative anatomy, molecules, and evolutionary biology in order to conclude that evolution is scientific fact. Learning about this fascinating field is enhanced through "see for yourself" examples that include original data and figures from key historical and contemporary papers in evolutionary biology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Quick A–Z Guide to the Evidence
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Evolution as a Predictive Science
- 1: Understanding the Natural World: Evolution and the Process of Science
- 2: Age of Earth
- 3: Fossils
- 4: Biogeography
- 5: Molecular Evidence for Evolution
- 6: Anatomical Evidence for Evolution
- 7: Conflict and Cooperation Part I: Behavior
- 8: Conflict and Cooperation Part II: Coevolution
- 9: Human Evolution
- Appendix 1: Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859, first edition), Chapters IV (“Natural Selection”) and XIV (“Recapitulation and Conclusion”)
- Appendix 2: The Geologic Timescale
- Appendix 3: Major Species of Known Hominins
- Glossary
- References
- Index