Darwin's Spectre by Michael R Rose Md
Provides general readers with an introduction to the theory of evolution: its beginning with Darwin, its key concepts, and how it may affect us in the future. There is a brief biographical sketch of Darwin and a primer on three concepts in evolutionary theory: variation, selection and adaptation.
"A world of grand ideas, daring speculation... Best of all is his discussion of the ideas surrounding evolution and human behavior.... Rose plumps for a more flexible, less deterministic (but, he is keen to stress, no less Darwinian) view of the human mind."---Martin Brookes, New Scientist
"Ironically, Rose evokes the image of a hovering Darwinian ghost in this altogether rational, absorbing account of the past 150 years of Darwinism.... He makes an excellent case for the importance of evolutionary biology to all of science." * Kirkus Reviews *
"Ironically, Rose evokes the image of a hovering Darwinian ghost in this altogether rational, absorbing account of the past 150 years of Darwinism.... He makes an excellent case for the importance of evolutionary biology to all of science." * Kirkus Reviews *
Michael R. Rose is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. A researcher in the biology of aging, he is known for selection experiments that made fruit flies live twice as long as normal. He is also the author of The Evolutionary Biology of Aging and a coeditor of Adaptation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691012179 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691012172 |
| Title | Darwin's Spectre |
| Author | Michael R Rose Md |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1998-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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