Improbable destinies : fate, chance, and the future of evolution
by Losos, Jonathan B. (Author)
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A Harvard museum curator draws on the latest breakthroughs in evolutionary biology to examine how tiny, random convergences, from mutations to butterfly sneezes, have triggered remarkable evolutionary changes. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The good dinosaur
- Part one. Nature's doppelgängers
- Evolutionary déjà vu
- Replicated reptiles
- Evolutionary idiosyncrasy
- Part two. Experiments in the wild
- The not-so-glacial pace of evolutionary change
- Colorful Trinidad
- Lizard castaways
- From manure to modern science
- Evolution in swimming pools and sandboxes
- Part three. Evolution under the microscope
- Replaying the tape
- Breakthrough in a bottle
- Jots, tittles, and drunken fruit flies
- The human environment
- Conclusion. Fate, chance, and the inevitability of humans.