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Evolution That Anyone Can Understand (eBook)

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2011
XII, 116 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
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Evolution That Anyone Can Understand - Bernard Marcus
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The function of scientific research is promoting the understanding of the world around us. In theory, anyway, the more we learn, the more potential we have of making our lives better. Thus, we have seen research in electronics provide us with computers, research in chemistry provide us with all manner of synthetics, and research in agriculture provide us with more food. Periodically, scientific research uncovers something that makes some of us uncomfortable. The discovery of the link between smoking and lung cancer and heart disease was not received well by the tobacco industry, and the link between global climate change and fossil fuel use has not been well received by the petroleum industry, to cite just two examples. Usually the response of those whose world has been disrupted by science is denial, often followed by attack on or ridicule of the science that has challenged them. In the long term, however, science usually turns out to be correct.

Bernard Marcus is the author of other books, including: Tropical Forests, Jones and Bartlett, 2008, 200 pp., SC $30.95 Human Nutrition (Cliffs Quick Review), Cliffs Notes, 1997, 192 pp., SC
The function of scientific research is promoting the understanding of the world around us. In theory, anyway, the more we learn, the more potential we have of making our lives better. Thus, we have seen research in electronics provide us with computers, research in chemistry provide us with all manner of synthetics, and research in agriculture provide us with more food. Periodically, scientific research uncovers something that makes some of us uncomfortable. The discovery of the link between smoking and lung cancer and heart disease was not received well by the tobacco industry, and the link between global climate change and fossil fuel use has not been well received by the petroleum industry, to cite just two examples. Usually the response of those whose world has been disrupted by science is denial, often followed by attack on or ridicule of the science that has challenged them. In the long term, however, science usually turns out to be correct.

Bernard Marcus is the author of other books, including: Tropical Forests, Jones and Bartlett, 2008, 200 pp., SC $30.95 Human Nutrition (Cliffs Quick Review), Cliffs Notes, 1997, 192 pp., SC

 Preface.- Introduction.- Dedication.- CHAPTER 1:  Exactly what is evolution?.- CHAPTER 2:  WWhat's God got to do with it?.- CHAPTER 3:  But it's only a theory.- Chapter 4:  IceFish and Other Genetic Anomalies and an argument for vestigiality.- CHAPTER 5:  Islands in the sky and elsewhere.- Chapter 6:  Superbugs.- CHAPTER 7:  Biogeography.- CHAPTER 8:  Up a blind alley.- CHAPTER 9:  What is a sepcies?.- CHAPTER 10:  How does it work?.- CHAPTER 11:  What's the evidence.- CHAPTER 12:  Convergance.- CHAPTER 13:  Is it happening now?.- CHAPTER 14:  What about us?

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.11.2011
Reihe/Serie SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology
SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology
Zusatzinfo XII, 116 p. 6 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Evolution
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
Technik
Schlagworte Copernicus • Creationism • Darwin • Education • Intelligent Design
ISBN-10 1-4419-6126-7 / 1441961267
ISBN-13 978-1-4419-6126-6 / 9781441961266
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