The Pocket Darwin

Author : Bill Price
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
ISBN 13 : 1842435590
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Darwin written by Bill Price and published by Oldcastle Books. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of The Origin of Species in 1859 was the culmination of more than twenty years of work by Charles Darwin and the ideas he presented in it would lead to a fundamental change in the way we think about life on earth. Evolution, as it came to be known, described how the extraordinary variety of life could develop and adapt by natural means rather than being entirely the creation of a supreme being. It was controversial at the time and now, as the bicentenary of Darwin's birth approaches in 2009, it remains the subject of bitter argument, with the opposing sides of the debate, the supporters of Darwinian evolution like Richard Dawkins and the proponents of intelligent design, as polarised as they have ever been. Bill Price looks at the origins of Darwin's theory and the arguments that have surrounded it ever since.

Author : Answers in Genesis
Publisher : Answers in Genesis
ISBN 13 : 9781600922565
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pocket Guide To... Charles Darwin written by Answers in Genesis and published by Answers in Genesis. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Brassfield Cogan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539343660
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pocket Darwin written by Susan Brassfield Cogan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is evolution? Is it scientific? What, exactly, did Charles Darwin give to the world? It would take more than a human lifetime to examine in detail all the evidence supporting the Theory of Evolution. This book covers some of the main ideas of the theory in an easy, reader-friendly way and gives pointers and references to find out more.

Author : K. Thalia Grant
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691142106
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darwin in Galápagos written by K. Thalia Grant and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreates the scientist's historic visit to the Galapagos Islands using his original notebooks and logs, the latest findings by scholars and researchers, and the authors' first-hand knowledge of the archipelago.

Author : Dusha Bateson
Publisher : G Editions LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Charles Darwin's Recipe Book written by Dusha Bateson and published by G Editions LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delineates a lifestyle at the top of English society and intelligentsia. This cookbook includes unlikely dishes such as Turnips Cresselly and Penally Pudding. It also features the recipe for boiling rice in Charles Darwin's own hand.

Author : Carolyn Meyer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152061944
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The True Adventures of Charley Darwin written by Carolyn Meyer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species," Meyer tells the story of his restless childhood, unrequited teenage love, and a passion for studying nature that was so great, Darwin would sacrifice everything to pursue it.

Author : Stephen Webster
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750957565
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Darwin: pocket GIANTS written by Stephen Webster and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Darwin announced his theory of evolution by natural selection, he did more than transform biology. Before his great work, humans were comfortably different from other life, a special creation. By showing how life on Earth evolved, Darwin told us that humans too are part of nature. His decisive experience – a five-year round-the-world voyage on the Beagle – set him thinking about the diversity of life, ideas that would challenge the scientific establishment and Victorian society. Darwin for years built his evidence for evolution, even as he realised that such ideas were leading him straight into controversy and dispute. This book gives a concise account of Darwin's life and work, and makes vividly clear why his work continues to influence us all. Stephen Webster is Director of the Science Communication Unit at Imperial College. He was educated in zoology at Bristol, and in the philosophy of science at Cambridge. His PhD thesis was a study of art-science collaborations. Stephen has a writing career that spans textbooks, BBC radio plays, an opera about Darwin, BBC radio documentaries about the nature of science, and contributions to the Guardian newspaper's weather column. His 1993 radio play about the clockmaker John Harrison was awarded an Association for British Science Writers prize; in 2003, with the composer Graham Treacher, Stephen was funded by the Wellcome Trust to write the libretto for Darwin's Dream, a piece of music theatre that received its premiere in the Royal Albert Hall.

Author : Menno Schilthuizen
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250127831
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darwin Comes to Town written by Menno Schilthuizen and published by Picador. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts. *Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete. *Europe’s urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of traffic. How is this happening? Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of “urban ecologists” studying how our manmade environments are accelerating and changing the evolution of the animals and plants around us. In Darwin Comes to Town, he takes us around the world for an up-close look at just how stunningly flexible and swift-moving natural selection can be. With human populations growing, we’re having an increasing impact on global ecosystems, and nowhere do these impacts overlap as much as they do in cities. The urban environment is about as extreme as it gets, and the wild animals and plants that live side-by-side with us need to adapt to a whole suite of challenging conditions: they must manage in the city’s hotter climate (the “urban heat island”); they need to be able to live either in the semidesert of the tall, rocky, and cavernous structures we call buildings or in the pocket-like oases of city parks (which pose their own dangers, including smog and free-rangingdogs and cats); traffic causes continuous noise, a mist of fine dust particles, and barriers to movement for any animal that cannot fly or burrow; food sources are mainly human-derived. And yet, as Schilthuizen shows, the wildlife sharing these spaces with us is not just surviving, but evolving ways of thriving. Darwin Comes toTown draws on eye-popping examples of adaptation to share a stunning vision of urban evolution in which humans and wildlife co-exist in a unique harmony. It reveals that evolution can happen far more rapidly than Darwin dreamed, while providing a glimmer of hope that our race toward over population might not take the rest of nature down with us.

Author : Fiona Macdonald
Publisher : Salariya Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781904642923
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Beagle with Charles Darwin written by Fiona Macdonald and published by Salariya Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Beagle with Charles Darwin takes readers around the world on a voyage of discovery with the famous scientist, from his early meeting with Captain Fitzroy to his modest return nearly five years later. The book also looks at seafaring in the early 19th-century, including navigation equipment, the captain and crew, and life on board ship. We explore in depth the discoveries which Darwin made on the voyage, the specimens he gathered and the conclusions be came to. The final part of the book deals with his famous writings and the contemporary reaction to the idea of evolution. The book features cutaway diagrams of the ship, illustrations of the journey, maps, contemporary paintings, and photographs from Darwin's published works. Informative captions, a complete glossary, time lines and an index make this title an ideal educational text. It is an ideal text for shared and guided reading for Key Stage 2 pupils within the framework of the National Literacy Strategy. It helps achieve the goals of the Scottish Standard Curriculum 5-14, promoting 'positive attitudes to learning', 'knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the world' and 'skills in literacy'.

Author : Jonathan Miller
Publisher : El Ateneo
ISBN 13 : 9781874166016
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darwin for Beginners written by Jonathan Miller and published by El Ateneo. This book was released on 1982 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unravelling Darwin's life and contribution to biology, this book traces the path from his scientific predecessors to the later modifications that his own evolutionary theories required. It provides a clear historical perspective on the progress from pre-Darwinian biology to modern genetics.