Evolution : a Scientific American reader.

Includes bibliographical references.

The evolution of the universe / P. James Peebles, David N. Schramm, Edwin L. Turner and Richard G. Kron -- The first stars in the universe / Richard B. Larson and Volker Bromm -- Exploring our universe and others / Martin Rees -- Searching for life in our solar system / Bruce M. Jakosky -- The fate of life in the universe / Lawrence M. Krauss and Glenn D. Starkman -- Life's rocky start / Robert M. Hazen -- Misconceptions about the big bang / Charles H. Lineweaver and Tamara M. Davis -- The evolution of the Earth / Claude J. Allègre and Stephen H. Schneider -- Uprooting the tree of life / W. Ford Doolittle -- The birth of complex cells / Christian de Duve -- Viral quasispecies / Manfred Eigen -- How cells respond to stress / William J. Welch -- Cell communication : the inside story / John D. Scott and Tony Pawson -- Life, death and the immune system / Gustav J.V. Nossal -- Cybernetic cells / W. Wayt Bibbs -- Rulers of the Jurassic seas / Ryosuke Motani -- The mammals that conquered the seas / Kate Wong -- Breathing life in to Tyrannosaurus rex / Gregory M. Erickson -- Madagascar's Mesozoic secrets / John J. Flynn and André R. Wyss -- Which came first, the feather or the bird? / Richard O. Prum and Alan H. Brush -- The terror birds of South America / Larry G. Marshall -- The evolution of life on the Earth / Stephen Jay Gould -- An ancestor to call our own / Kate Wong -- Early Hominid fossils from Africa / Meave Leakey and Alan Walker -- Planet of the apes / David R. Begun -- Once we were not alone / Ian Tattersall -- Out of Africa again ... and again? / Ian Tattersall -- Who were the Neandertals? / Kate Wong -- Food for thought / William R. Leonard -- Skin deep / Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin -- The evolution of human birth / Karen R. Rosenberg and Wenda R. Trevathan -- Once were cannibals / Tim D. White -- If humans were built to last / S. Jay Olshansky, Bruce A. Carnes and Robert N. Butler.

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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 controversy-or grabbed as many headlines-as evolution. And since the debate shows no signs of abating, there is perhaps no better time to step back and ask: What is evolution? Defined as the gradual process by which something changes into a different and usually more complex and efficient form, evolution explains the formation of the universe, the nature of viruses, and the emergence of humans. A f.

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