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Author Carroll, Sean B.

Title The making of the fittest : DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution / Sean B. Carroll ; with illustrations by Jamie W. Carroll and Leanne M. Olds.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Co., c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  572.86 C236m 2006    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 301 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-284) and index.
Contents Beyond any reasonable doubt -- The bloodless fish of Bouvet Island -- The everyday math of evolution: chance, selection, and time -- Immortal genes: running in place for eons -- Making the new from the old -- Fossil genes: broken pieces of yesterday's life -- Deja vu: how and why evolution repeats itself -- Our flesh and blood: arms races, the human race, and natural selection -- The making and evolution of complexity -- Seeing and believing -- The palm trees of Wyoming.
Subject DNA.
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution, Molecular.
ISBN 0393061639 (hardcover)
9780393061635 (hardcover)
9780393061635 (hardcover)
Standard No. YDXCP 2437124
NLM 101293178
NZ1 11163087

 
    
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