The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life. - MINDELL, DAVID P
evolution in everyday life
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In the 150 years since Darwin, evolutionary biology has proven as essential as it is controversial, a critical concept for answering questions about everything from the genetic code and the structure of cells to the reproduction, development, and migration of animal and plant life. But today, as David P. Mindell makes undeniably clear in The Evolving World, evolutionary biology is much more than an explanatory concept. It is indispensable to the world we live in. This book provides the first truly accessible and balanced account of how evolution has become a tool with applications that are thoroughly integrated, and deeply useful, in our everyday lives and our societies, often in ways that we do not realize. When we domesticate wild species for agriculture or companionship; when we manage our exposure to pathogens and prevent or control epidemics; when we foster the diversity of species and safeguard the functioning of ecosystems: in each of these cases, Mindell shows us, evolutionary biology applies. It is a...
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2006Uitgever: Harvard University Press341 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0674021916ISBN-13: 9780674021914Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's brown cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards, black title spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: x, 342pp. Very fine copy - as new. Cambridge-London, Harvard University Press. 2006 [Auteur: MINDELL, DAVID P] [Jaar: 2006] [Titel: The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life.]
