The evolution of an idea /
"Can species change? Or go extinct? In the eighteenth century, most people answer no to both questions. But in the century that follows, that certainty gets challenged as some people in Europe question the common belief that all creatures are the same as they've been since life's crea...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Somerville, Massachusetts :
MITeen Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Hakim, Joy. Discovering life's story ;
v. 2. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: an age of enlightenment and evolution
- The organization man
- Big thinking with Buffon
- The life of the lunaticks
- Lamarck and Cuvier: think oil and water
- Watch out for giants
- Erasmus's grandson
- Aboard the Beagle: five years at sea
- Darwin's big idea
- The other guy
- Three papers and an entangled bank
- Mendel minding peas
- Treading a primrose path
- Looking ahead.