Presents the author's account of his five-year journey aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Beagle (1831-1836) as it surveyed the coasts of South America, New Zealand, Australia, and the famous Galapagos Archipelago. This title provides examples of the scientist's reasoning ability and intriguing glimpses into his thought processes.
In this seminal study of human bone forms, Dr. Mees reveals the skeleton as an articulate work of art. But who is the artist? Using a blend of phenomenological observations and artistic intuition, the author carefully explores the anatomical facts of the human skeleton, with the beauty of many bones impressively described and illustrated through ......
Challenges the arguments as well as the claims of creationism seeping into mainstream education, science, and philosophy. This book re-establishes solid arguments supporting the science of Charles Darwin.
Written in the form of an explorer's log, this book condenses four billion years into a single year, making it easier to assess the relative distances between major events and the duration of each evolutionary era.
Explains that some of our counterproductive and self-destructive tendencies are the result of humans spending over a million years foraging through the African savannah for food, grubbing for edible roots, and chasing other scavengers away from the kills of abler predators.
Examines various facets of the evolution/creationism controversy. This collection of essays exposes the ambiguous standing of "creation science" in public education, its roots in American fundamentalism, its incompatibility with scientific inquiry, and the clever rhetorical ploys "scientific creationists" use to cover their tracks.
A collection of essays, covering a range of fields, from Darwinism and the global population explosion to bird watching, which point out frontiers for scientific research and reaffirm the author's s belief in the intimate connection of the sciences, particularly biology, with the pressing social problems of the present and future.
Shows how the never-ending controversy of human evolution came to be. This book details the events that caused thinkers like Charles Darwin to develop his theory of evolution, and what ideas caused some people to reconcile a somewhat mystical theology with a concrete model of the universe.
Offers an analysis of flora and fauna, which calls into question the long-held concepts of spontaneous generation, divine creation, and the unrelatedness of many species.
