Making Sense of Evolution

by: Carl Zimmer

In this chapter, the author gives a general overview about evolution and its major themes—variation, inheritance, selection, and time. The author also takes a look at the basic principles by which evolution works, and considers how they have interacted to produce the organisms to be encountered in the activities in this book.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2006Stock # PB196X_1

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