evolution

Draws on new findings to examine the ancestral human population that lived in Africa fifty thousand years ago, explaining how the human line evolved from African apes to humans with the unique gift of language.

Explores how recent scientific discoveries have prompted a dramatic reappraisal of common beliefs about the history of humans.

Offers an overview of the fundamental concepts used to study and understand human origins and evolution, and explains what science has learned about how the species has evolved in response to its environment and needs.

Examines the many controversies surrounding Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, exploring why his theory has been the object of such vehement attack, what the most common arguments against it are, and how the current controversy has been influenced by past events.

Contains forty-four book excerpts, essays, speeches, and articles written by Stephen Jay Gould in which he comments on his life, the theories of various scientists, evolution, sociobiology, racism, religion, and more.

Chronicles the events that occurred in Dover, Pennsylvania, after the school board decided to eliminate evolution from the curriculum and teach intelligent design, providing both sides of the argument.

Chronicles the history of evolutionary science from early-nineteenth-century theory to twenty-first-century sociobiology, discussing the work of Darwin as well as other figures including Georges Cuvier, W. D. Hamilton, and E. O. Wilson.

Summarizes key aspects of several of the most significant lines of evidence supporting evolution, and describes some of the positions taken by advocates of creation science and presents an analysis of these claims.

Presents Charles Darwin's classic in which he argues that species change over time, evolving or dying out entirely, through the process of natural selection; and his journals from his five-year voyage around the world on the "H.M.S. Beagle, " in which he recorded his observations on geology and natural history.

Presents Charles Darwin's influential text in which he argues that species change over time, evolving or dying out entirely, through the process of natural selection.