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The Evolutionary World: How Adaptation Explains Everything from Seashells to Civilization

The Evolutionary World: How Adaptation Explains Everything from Seashells to Civilization

by Geerat J . Vermeij (Author)

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The Evolutionary World presents a new argument for evolution's broader importance. Adaptation plays a role not only in the development of new species but the development of human civilization, and by understanding how evolutionary theory has played out in areas such as our economic system, our preparation for catastrophes, and even the development of communities, we can learn not just how these systems work, but also what challenges lie ahead. For readers of Richard Dawkins and Jerry A. Coyne's Why Evolution is True , this book offers the next step in appreciating evolution's integral part in our lives.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 336
 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 03 Jan 2011
ISBN 10: 031259108X
ISBN 13: 9780312591083

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A wonderfully rich and wise book. Combining an exhilarating zest for life with unusual and acute powers of observation, Geerat Vermeij is also a refreshingly original thinker. His insights into the processes of evolution and their relevance to science and society are striking and thought-provoking. An illuminating book.--Nick Lane, author of Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Author Bio
GEERAT J. VERMEIJ, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Geology at the University of California at Davis. Vermeij was born in the Netherlands and came to the United States with his family in 1955. He has received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal by the National Academy of Sciences and was honored as a MacArthur Fellow. He has published more than two hundred scientific papers and five books and served as editor for Evolution and Paleobiology, the foremost journals in their respective fields.