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The making of the fittest : DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution
- 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.
- Author
- Carroll, Sean B.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Co., [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- 301 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-284) and index.
- Contents
- Preface : beyond any reasonable doubt -- Ch. 1. Introduction : the bloodless fish of Bouvet Island -- Ch. 2. The everyday math of evolution : chance, selection, and time -- Ch. 3. Immortal genes : running in place for eons -- Ch. 4. Making the new from the old -- Ch. 5. Fossil genes : broken pieces of yesterday's life -- Ch. 6. Deja vu : how and why evolution repeats itself -- Ch. 7. Our flesh and blood : arms races, the human race, and natural selection -- Ch. 8. The making and evolution of complexity -- Ch. 9. Seeing and believing -- Ch. 10. The palm trees of Wyoming.
- ISBN
- 0393061639 (hardcover)
- 9780393061635 (hardcover)
- 9780393061635 (hardcover) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2006017197
- 99820109104
- OCLC
- ocm69593994\
- 69593994
- SCSB-5399254
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries