Evolution

By Alvin Silverstein

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• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761330038
• ISBN13: 9780761330035
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

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 Although research has sometimes superseded the conclusions reached, many of these articles are still interesting--as least for historical purposes.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."