As all books by de Duve, it is elegantly written, informative and a worthy addition to any lineup of books on evolutionary biology. 0-521-84195-X, 2005, hardback, 258 pagesA. W. SchwartzOrigins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere: The Journal of the International Society for the ...
Before Johanna Drucker’sThe Century of Artists’ Books(1994), the discussion of artists’ books was all argy-bargy about definitions, boundaries, neologisms or the placement of apostrophes.The Centurycut through all that to become the introductory textbook to the field’s evolutionary biology. Deci...
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The Century cut through all that to become the introductory textbook to the field’s evolutionary biology. Decidedly post-Darwinian, it avoided rigid taxonomy and categories. If all the elements or activities which contribute to artists’ books as a field are described[,] what emerges is a zone...
The nonspecialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument that support evolutionary theory. The final chapters on the creationists will be extremely clear to all. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says:" This book stands for ...
He chooses the best books on biology, from the death of the dodo to the discovery of DNA. The best books on Science Writing, recommended by Tim Radford Read 1 Possible Worlds by J.B.S. Haldane Read 2 Of a Fire on the Moon (also called Moonfire) by Norman Mailer Read 3 The ...
T he non-specialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument thatsupport evolutionary theory. T he final chapter on thecreationists will be extremely clear to all. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says"T his book stands for ...
(State University of New York, Binghampton) degree in evolutionary biology. He is a founding director of the Ucluelet Aquarium Society – a public education facility focusing on marine biodiversity in British Columbia. In 2016 he was awarded the Guelph Faculty Association's Distinguished Professor ...
postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of Nature and Science of Japan, where he wrote most of his contributions to this book. His research focuses primarily on the origins, phylogeny, feeding ecology and macroevolution of living and extinct baleen whales, based on specimens from around the ...
Book review – Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould 7-minute read keywords: evolutionary biology, history of science, paleontology Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) was a well-known evolutionary biologist, palaeontologist, and science populariser. Amongst...