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020 $a9781416594789
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020 $z9781416597780 (ebook)
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050 00 $aQH366.2$b.D374 2009
082 00 $a576.8$222
100 1 $aDawkins, Richard,$d1941-
245 14 $aThe greatest show on Earth :$bthe evidence for evolution /$cRichard Dawkins.
250 $a1st Free Press hardcover ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFree Press,$c2009.
300 $aix, 470 p., 32 p. of plates :$bill. (chiefly col.), col. map ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [439]-454) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tOnly a theory? -- $gCh. 2.$tDogs, cows and cabbages -- $gCh. 3.$tThe primrose path to macro-evolution -- $gCh. 4.$tSilence and slow time -- $gCh. 5.$tBefore our very eyes -- $gCh. 6.$tMissing link? What do you mean, 'missing'? -- $gCh. 7.$tMissing persons? Missing no longer -- $gCh. 8.$tYou did it yourself in nine months -- $gCh. 9.$tThe ark of the continents -- $gCh. 10.$tThe tree of cousinship -- $gCh. 11.$tHistory written all over us -- $gCh. 12.$tArms races and 'evolutionary theodicy' -- $gCh. 13.$tThere is grandeur in this view of life -- $gAppendix.$tThe history-deniers.
520 1 $a"In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity." "The Greatest Show on Earth is a counter-attack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Richard Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements and many more, he makes the airtight case that " we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection.""--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009025330-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009025330-d.html
852 00 $bsci$hQH366.2$i.D374 2009