How Evolution Shapes Our Lives (eBook)

Essays on Biology and Society

Richard E. Lenski, Jonathan B. Losos (Herausgeber)

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2016
416 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8138-3 (ISBN)

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Jonathan B. Losos is the Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America and Curator of Herpetology at Harvard University. Richard E. Lenski is the John Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University.

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An authoritative exploration of why understanding evolution is crucial to human life todayIt is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only in "e;nature,"e; or that is so slow that its ongoing impact is virtually nonexistent when viewed from the perspective of a single human lifetime. But we now know that when natural selection is strong, evolutionary change can be very rapid. In this book, some of the world's leading scientists explore the implications of this reality for human life and society. With some twenty-three essays, this volume provides authoritative yet accessible explorations of why understanding evolution is crucial to human life-from dealing with climate change and ensuring our food supply, health, and economic survival to developing a richer and more accurate comprehension of society, culture, and even what it means to be human itself. Combining new essays with essays revised and updated from the acclaimed Princeton Guide to Evolution, this collection addresses the role of evolution in aging, cognition, cooperation, religion, the media, engineering, computer science, and many other areas. The result is a compelling and important book about how evolution matters to humans today.The contributors are Dan I. Andersson, Francisco J. Ayala, Amy Cavanaugh, Cameron R. Currie, Dieter Ebert, Andrew D. Ellington, Elizabeth Hannon, John Hawks, Paul Keim, Richard E. Lenski, Tim Lewens, Jonathan B. Losos, Virpi Lummaa, Jacob A. Moorad, Craig Moritz, Martha M. Munoz, Mark Pagel, Talima Pearson, Robert T. Pennock, Daniel E. L. Promislow, Erik M. Quandt, David C. Queller, Robert C. Richardson, Eugenie C. Scott, H. Bradley Shaffer, Joan E. Strassmann, Alan R. Templeton, Paul E. Turner, and Carl Zimmer.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.7.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 15 line illus. 10 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Schlagworte: Adaptation • Agriculture • Allele • Antimicrobial Resistance • Bacillus anthracis • Bacteria • Behavior • Behavioral modernity • biodiversity • biologist • Biology • Charles Darwin • Chimpanzee • chromosome • climate change • Coevolution • common descent • conservation biology • Cooperation • Creationism • Creation Science • Cultural Evolution • Darwinism • Disease • domestication • Enzyme • epidemiology • Evolution • evolutionary biology • evolutionary computation • Evolutionary Psychology • extinction event • Fitness (biology) • fungus • Gene • Gene Flow • genetic diversity • genetic drift • geneticist • genetic variation • genomics • Genotype • Heritability • Hominini • Homo • Homo erectus • horizontal gene transfer • Human • human behavior • Human behavioral ecology • Human Evolution • human genome • Hunter-Gatherer • Infection • inference • kin selection • Local adaptation • Longevity • mating • menopause • Microorganism • Molecular Biology • Molecule • Mutation • mutation rate • Natural selection • Neanderthal • newspaper • Nucleic acid sequence • Nucleotide • nutrient • On the Origin of Species • organism • paleontology • pathogen • pathogenic bacteria • Penicillin • Phenotype • Phenotypic trait • Phylogenetics • phylogenetic tree • Physiology • Plasmid • Polymorphism (biology) • Population Genetics • Population Size • Protein • Psychology • Reproduction • Reproductive success • Science • Scientist • selective breeding • Sexual Selection • Stephen Jay Gould • Technology • Thought • Trade-off • Virulence • whole genome sequencing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8138-2 / 1400881382
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8138-3 / 9781400881383