Children of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution

by Christopher Wills (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $5.90

  Scientists have grappled with the question are we still evolving? since the time of Darwin. In this book, Christopher Wills argues that people are not only continuing to evolve, but that their pace of change is accelerating. Wills explores evolution's mysterious ways - both visible and unseen - examining the rapid short-term evolutionary change taking place in people living at the earth's extremes and the new physiology of those who participate in extreme sports.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $12.19

  Are we still evolving? Scientists have grappled with this question since the time of Darwin. Christopher Wills argues that we are not only continuing to evolve, but that our pace of change is accelerating. He explores mysterious ways - both visible and unseen, examining the rapid short-term evolutionary change taking place in people living at the earth's extremes and the new physiology of those who participate in extreme sports.