Do elephants have knees? : and other Darwinian stories of origins / Charles R. Ault Jr.
2017
QH367
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Title
Do elephants have knees? : and other Darwinian stories of origins / Charles R. Ault Jr.
ISBN
9781501705861 (ebook)
1501705865
9781501704673
1501704672
1501705865
9781501704673
1501704672
Published
Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Call Number
QH367
System Control No.
(OCoLC)971044654
Summary
Thinking whimsically makes serious science accessible. That's a message that should be taken to heart by all readers who want to learn about evolution. This work invites readers into serious appreciation of Darwinian histories by deploying the playful thinking found in children's books. The text weds children's literature to recent research in paleontology and evolutionary biology. Inquiring into the origins of origins stories, the author presents three portraits of Charles Darwin - curious child, twentysomething adventurer, and elderly worm scientist.
Note
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Thinking whimsically makes serious science accessible. That's a message that should be taken to heart by all readers who want to learn about evolution. This work invites readers into serious appreciation of Darwinian histories by deploying the playful thinking found in children's books. The text weds children's literature to recent research in paleontology and evolutionary biology. Inquiring into the origins of origins stories, the author presents three portraits of Charles Darwin - curious child, twentysomething adventurer, and elderly worm scientist.
Thinking whimsically makes serious science accessible. That's a message that should be taken to heart by all readers who want to learn about evolution. This work invites readers into serious appreciation of Darwinian histories by deploying the playful thinking found in children's books. The text weds children's literature to recent research in paleontology and evolutionary biology. Inquiring into the origins of origins stories, the author presents three portraits of Charles Darwin - curious child, twentysomething adventurer, and elderly worm scientist.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : wonderful relationships : Darwinian stories of origins
"Curtiosity's" child : Bobby Darwin's impertinent early years
Darwin and the pampas pirates : adventure in search of treasure
Fossils, fools, & faults : rounding South America
Irritating worms : the elderly Darwin fascinated by the intelligence of worms
A lungfish walked into the zoo : on the origin of limbs from lobe-fins
Out on a limb : sketching at the zoo to compare limb anatomy
Nosey elephants : a tale of trunks and tusks
The bearduck of baleen : on the origin of new traits from existing ones
The saga of Mooshmael : the logic of evolutionary relationships
The higgledy-piggledy whale : calling a whale a whale on purpose
Archaic chickengators : amniotic archosaur ancestors of dinosaurs and birds
Coral pigs and tidepool sheep : novel selections of behavior and anatomy
Epilogue : femurs and footprints : on the trail of megabeasts.
"Curtiosity's" child : Bobby Darwin's impertinent early years
Darwin and the pampas pirates : adventure in search of treasure
Fossils, fools, & faults : rounding South America
Irritating worms : the elderly Darwin fascinated by the intelligence of worms
A lungfish walked into the zoo : on the origin of limbs from lobe-fins
Out on a limb : sketching at the zoo to compare limb anatomy
Nosey elephants : a tale of trunks and tusks
The bearduck of baleen : on the origin of new traits from existing ones
The saga of Mooshmael : the logic of evolutionary relationships
The higgledy-piggledy whale : calling a whale a whale on purpose
Archaic chickengators : amniotic archosaur ancestors of dinosaurs and birds
Coral pigs and tidepool sheep : novel selections of behavior and anatomy
Epilogue : femurs and footprints : on the trail of megabeasts.
Audience
Specialized.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 6, 2016).
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