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The Ancestor's Tale

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 13 : 9780618619160
Total Pages : 696 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (916 users downloads)

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Download or read book The Ancestor's Tale written by Richard Dawkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned biologist provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexual selection, speciation, extinction, and genetics.

The Ancestor's Tale

by Richard Dawkins

Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-04-28
ISBN 13 : 1474600573
Total Pages : 688 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (46 users downloads)

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Download or read book The Ancestor's Tale written by Richard Dawkins and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written, featuring new fractal diagrams, six new 'tales' and the latest scientific developments. THE ANCESTOR'S TALE is a dazzling, four-billion-year pilgrimage to the origins of life: Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong take us on an exhilarating reverse journey through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginnings of life. It is a journey happily interrupted by meetings of fellow modern animals (as well as plants, fungi and bacteria) similarly tracing their evolutionary path back through history. As each evolutionary pilgrim tells their tale, Dawkins and Wong shed light on topics such as speciation, sexual selection and extinction. Written with unparalleled wit, clarity and intelligence; taking in new scientific discoveries of the past decade; and including new 'tales', illustrations and fractal diagrams, THE ANCESTOR'S TALE shows us how remarkable we are, how astonishing our history, and how intimate our relationship with the rest of the living world.

Imaginative Perspectives and Ecopsychological Insights

by Tiffany Twain

Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-04-05
ISBN 13 : 1300670800
Total Pages : 214 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (67 users downloads)

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Download or read book Imaginative Perspectives and Ecopsychological Insights written by Tiffany Twain and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book four of the Earth manifesto contains tall tales about an adventure trip on a 42-foot catamaran on the Sea of Cortez with a passel of female friends, and it elaborates with stories about tyrants and damsels. The thinking of famous pholosophers throughtout history is also explored with a view to gaining a better understanding of our world today." Found on back cover

Politics by Other Means

by William Grassie

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2010-03-31
ISBN 13 : 1450038492
Total Pages : 326 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (3 users downloads)

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Download or read book Politics by Other Means written by William Grassie and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics by Other Means explores profound issues at the interface of contemporary religion and science from a global perspective. Brought together and thematically organized in this volume are twenty-four essays that were originally presented at conferences in China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, and Sri Lanka. Many of the essays are more journalistic in tone and content, while others adopt a more academic prose style and approach. All are provocative and iconoclastic challenging scientifi c and religious orthodoxies, exploring the great cultural ambivalences at the intersection of the domains of science and religion, and holding out the possibility of a transformative politics for addressing the great challenges of the twenty-fi rst century.

Letter to My Christian Family and Friends: Living without God

by Darrel Newkirk MD, MPH

Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2016-04-04
ISBN 13 : 1483449122
Total Pages : 154 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (344 users downloads)

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Download or read book Letter to My Christian Family and Friends: Living without God written by Darrel Newkirk MD, MPH and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darrel D. Newkirk MD, MPH was a devoted Christian for over 55 years. He believed God was calling him to be a medical missionary and subsequently he and his wife prepared to serve as foreign missionaries. They served 5 years in Zaire, Africa. After returni

Books by Richard Dawkins

by Source Wikipedia

Publisher : University-Press.org
Release Date : 2013-09
ISBN 13 : 9781230477282
Total Pages : 36 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (728 users downloads)

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Download or read book Books by Richard Dawkins written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 34. Chapters: A Devil's Chaplain, Climbing Mount Improbable, River Out of Eden, The Ancestor's Tale, The Blind Watchmaker, The Extended Phenotype, The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, The Magic of Reality, The Selfish Gene, Unweaving the Rainbow. Excerpt: The Ancestor's Tale (subtitled A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life) is a 2004 popular science book by Richard Dawkins, with contributions from Dawkins' research assistant Yan Wong. It follows the path of humans backwards through evolutionary history, meeting humanity's cousins as they converge on common ancestors. The book was nominated for the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Cladogram showing relationship between mammalian species as recounted in the bookThe narrative is structured as a pilgrimage, with all modern animals following their own path through history to the origin of life. Humans meet their evolutionary cousins at rendezvous points along the way, the points at which the lineage diverged. At each point Dawkins attempts to infer, from molecular and fossil evidence, the probable form of the most recent common ancestor and describes the modern animals that join humanity's growing travelling party. This structure is inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The pilgrimage visits a total of 40 "rendezvous points" from rendezvous zero, the most recent common ancestor of all of humanity, to rendezvous 39, eubacteria, the ancestor of all surviving organisms. Though Dawkins is confident of the essential shape of this phylogenetic taxonomy, he enters caveats on a small number of branch points where a compelling weight of evidence had not been assembled at the time of writing. At each rendezvous point, Dawkins recounts interesting tales concerning the cousin animals which are about to join the...

Consecrating Science

by Lisa H. Sideris

Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017-08-15
ISBN 13 : 0520967909
Total Pages : 296 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (96 users downloads)

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Download or read book Consecrating Science written by Lisa H. Sideris and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debunking myths behind what is known collectively as the new cosmology—a grand, overlapping set of narratives that claim to bring science and spirituality together—Lisa H. Sideris offers a searing critique of the movement’s anthropocentric vision of the world. In Consecrating Science, Sideris argues that instead of cultivating an ethic of respect for nature, the new cosmology encourages human arrogance, uncritical reverence for science, and indifference to nonhuman life. Exploring moral sensibilities rooted in experience of the natural world, Sideris shows how a sense of wonder can foster environmental attitudes that will protect our planet from ecological collapse for years to come.

Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology

by Ronald A. Jenner

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-31
ISBN 13 : 1009302647
Total Pages : pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (93 users downloads)

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Download or read book Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology written by Ronald A. Jenner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phylogenetics emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as a speculative storytelling discipline dedicated to providing narrative explanations for the evolution of taxa and their traits. It coincided with lineage thinking, a process that mentally traces character evolution along lineages of hypothetical ancestors. Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology traces the history of narrative phylogenetics and lineage thinking to the present day, drawing on perspectives from the history of science, philosophy of science, and contemporary scientific debates. It shows how the power of phylogenetic hypotheses to explain evolution resides in the precursor traits of hypothetical ancestors. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the topic of ancestors, which is central to modern biology, and is therefore of interest to graduate students, researchers, and academics in evolutionary biology, palaeontology, philosophy of science, and the history of science.

Ancestors and Relatives

by Eviatar Zerubavel

Publisher : OUP USA
Release Date : 2012-01-26
ISBN 13 : 0199773955
Total Pages : 239 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (977 users downloads)

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Download or read book Ancestors and Relatives written by Eviatar Zerubavel and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted social scientist Eviatar Zerubavel casts a critical eye on how we trace our past-individually and collectively arguing that rather than simply find out who our ancestors are from genetics or history, we actually create the stories that make them our ancestors.

Comprehensive Global Perspective: An Illuminating Worldview

by Tiffany Twain

Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2016-03-24
ISBN 13 : 130085023X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (85 users downloads)

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Download or read book Comprehensive Global Perspective: An Illuminating Worldview written by Tiffany Twain and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the original magnum opus of Earth Manifesto understandings. This book contains entertaining stories, incisive insights, philosophical introspections and biggest picture perspectives of all the great issues that face human beings and our civilizations today.

Llewellyn's 2016 Magical Almanac

by Llewellyn

Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Release Date : 2015-09-01
ISBN 13 : 0738734055
Total Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (873 users downloads)

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Download or read book Llewellyn's 2016 Magical Almanac written by Llewellyn and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Llewellyn’s Magical Almanac has been inspiring all levels of magical practitioners for over twenty years. Filled with practical spells, rituals, and fresh ideas, you’ll find new ways to deepen your craft and enhance everyday life. This edition features nearly three dozen compelling articles, grouped by element, on elemental angels, quick sabbat acknowledgements (instead of full rituals), copper energy rods, gem elixers, vision boards to transform energy, bubble magic, the magic of twin souls, photos for magical manifestation, and much more. Also included is a handy calendar section— shaded for easy “flip to” reference—featuring world festivals, holidays, and 2016 Sabbats. You’ll also find astrological info, plus incense and color correspondences, to empower your magical work.

Evolution That Anyone Can Understand

by Bernard Marcus

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-11-06
ISBN 13 : 9781441961266
Total Pages : 116 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (126 users downloads)

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Download or read book Evolution That Anyone Can Understand written by Bernard Marcus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Evolution

by Donald R. Prothero

Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-22
ISBN 13 : 0231543166
Total Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (154 users downloads)

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Download or read book Evolution written by Donald R. Prothero and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald R. Prothero’s Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book’s widespread adoption in courses that teach the nature and value of fossil evidence for evolution. Evolution tackles systematics and cladistics, rock dating, neo-Darwinism, and macroevolution. It includes extensive coverage of the primordial soup, invertebrate transitions, the development of the backbone, the reign of the dinosaurs, and the transformation from early hominid to modern human. The book also details the many alleged “missing links” in the fossil record, including some of the most recent discoveries that flesh out the fossil timeline and the evolutionary process. In this second edition, Prothero describes new transitional fossils from various periods, vividly depicting such bizarre creatures as the Odontochelys, or the “turtle on the half shell”; fossil snakes with legs; and the “Frogamander,” a new example of amphibian transition. Prothero’s discussion of intelligent design arguments includes more historical examples and careful examination of the “experiments” and observations that are exploited by creationists seeking to undermine sound science education. With new perspectives, Prothero reframes creationism as a case study in denialism and pseudoscience rather than a field with its own intellectual dynamism. The first edition was hailed as an exemplary exploration of the fossil evidence for evolution, and this second edition will be welcome in the libraries of scholars, teachers, and general readers who stand up for sound science in this post-truth era.

Using the Biological Literature

by Diane Schmidt

Publisher : CRC Press
Release Date : 2014-04-14
ISBN 13 : 146655858X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (655 users downloads)

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Download or read book Using the Biological Literature written by Diane Schmidt and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biological sciences cover a broad array of literature types, from younger fields like molecular biology with its reliance on recent journal articles, genomic databases, and protocol manuals to classic fields such as taxonomy with its scattered literature found in monographs and journals from the past three centuries. Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide, Fourth Edition is an annotated guide to selected resources in the biological sciences, presenting a wide-ranging list of important sources. This completely revised edition contains numerous new resources and descriptions of all entries including textbooks. The guide emphasizes current materials in the English language and includes retrospective references for historical perspective and to provide access to the taxonomic literature. It covers both print and electronic resources including monographs, journals, databases, indexes and abstracting tools, websites, and associations—providing users with listings of authoritative informational resources of both classical and recently published works. With chapters devoted to each of the main fields in the basic biological sciences, this book offers a guide to the best and most up-to-date resources in biology. It is appropriate for anyone interested in searching the biological literature, from undergraduate students to faculty, researchers, and librarians. The guide includes a supplementary website dedicated to keeping URLs of electronic and web-based resources up to date, a popular feature continued from the third edition.

Why Evolution is True

by Jerry A. Coyne

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 13 : 0199230846
Total Pages : 331 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (923 users downloads)

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Download or read book Why Evolution is True written by Jerry A. Coyne and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, palaeontology, geology, molecular biology, anatomy and development that demonstrate the processes first proposed by Darwin and to present them in a crisp, lucid, account accessible to a wide audience.

The Evolution of Evil

by Gaymon Bennett

Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 13 : 3525569793
Total Pages : 370 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (556 users downloads)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Evil written by Gaymon Bennett and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2008 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a multivalent diagnosis of the problem of evil in an evolutionary context. This diagnosis consists of an analysis of what is at stake, scientifically and theologically. More importantly, it offers an array of synthetic proposals for how theology might move beyond current difficulties, opening new directions for thought, and clearer understandings of evil."--BOOK JACKET.

Encyclopedia of Evolution

by Stanley A. Rice

Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 13 : 1438110057
Total Pages : 497 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (811 users downloads)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Evolution written by Stanley A. Rice and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary science is not only one of the greatest breakthroughs of modern science, but also one of the most controversial. Perhaps more than any other scientific area, evolutionary science has caused us all to question what we are, where we came from, and how we relate to the rest of the universe. Encyclopedia of Evolution contains more than 200 entries that span modern evolutionary science and the history of its development. This comprehensive volume clarifies many common misconceptions about evolution. For example, many people have grown up being told that the fossil record does not demonstrate an evolutionary pattern, and that there are many missing links. In fact, most of these missing links have been found, and their modern representatives are often still alive today. The biographical entries represent evolutionary scientists within the United States who have had and continue to have a major impact on the broad outline of evolutionary science. The biographies chosen reflect the viewpoints of scientists working within the United States. Five essays that explore interesting questions resulting from studies in evolutionary science are included as well. The appendix consists of a summary of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, which is widely considered to be the foundational work of evolutionary science and one of the most important books in human history. The five essays include: How much do genes control human behavior?What are the ghosts of evolution?Can an evolutionary scientist be religious?Why do humans die?Are humans alone in the universe