Evolution: Change over Time

By Scientific American and Anthea Maton

Book Overview

From the Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925 to the court ruling against the Dover Area School Board's proposed intelligent design curriculum in 2005, few scientific topics have engendered as much... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132255251
• ISBN13: 9780132255257
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A STILL-INTERESTING SUMMARY OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY (CIRCA 1978)

(Ignore the "Review" from the School Library Journal; it's clearly about a different book, that was for schoolchildren.) Scientific American has always been a more "scientific" magazine (albeit for a semi-"popular" audience) than, say, OMNI or Discover. Noteworthy scientists often contributed articles, that discussed cutting-edge research. The articles in this collection were all published in a special issue of Scientific American in September 1978. Although research has sometimes superseded the conclusions reached, many of these articles are still interesting--as least for historical purposes. Articles include Ernst Mayr on "Evolution"; Francisco Ayala on "The Mechanisms of Evolution"; Richard Dickerson's "Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life"; J. William Schopf on "The Evolution of the Earliest Cells"; Robert May on "The Evolution of Ecological Systems"; John Maynard Smith on "The Evolution of Behavior"; Sherwood Washburn on "The Evolution of Man"; and Richard Lewontin on "Adaptation."