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Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 35
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2001, c1982
Language
English
Description
In this analysis of Darwin's major insights and arguments, the author reasserts the importance of Darwin's work for the development of modern biology.
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Yet what if this narrative obscures a more hopeful truth? In "Inheritors of the Earth", renowned ecologist and environmentalist Chris D. Thomas overturns the accepted story, revealing how nature is fighting back. Many animals and plants actually benefit from our presence, raising biological diversity in most parts of the world and increasing the rate at which...
63) The mysteries
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns" --
From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America's most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"You are one of the newest members of a family tree that goes way, way, way back to the very first life on Earth. A lot of incredible things had to happen between the beginning of the universe and today in order to make you. The fact that you (and everyone you know) are here is nothing short of mind-boggling! Read this book to discover how it happened, and prepare to be amazed by the awesomeness of you. This clever, funny, and scientific timeline...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.
66) Charles Darwin
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Charles Darwin, the scientist who changed the way people see the world. Although he didn't do very well at school, Charles Darwin was passionately curious about wildlife, humans and plants. After a journey to South America, he developed his landmark theory: that all living things are related. Today, he is regarded as one of the most...
67) We go way back
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What is life? How did it start? Long, long ago, no one knows exactly where or when, a tiny bubble formed that was a Little Bit Different. It was the first living cell. Everyone's ancestor. And so the story of life begins."--
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 17
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
From Darwin's essential trip to the Galápagos, to the most contemporary studies in sociobiology, this work takes listeners both into the field and laboratories of the world's greatest evolutionary scientists, and shows how the theory of evolution has itself evolved.
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Tan fascinante como riguroso, Dinosaurios y Vida Prehistórica es un espectacular recorrido por millones de años de vida en el planeta tierra. Ilustrado con reconstrucciones en 3D, extraordinarios esqueletos y fósiles asombrosos, aprovecha la investigación científica más reciente para recrear multitud de especies antiguas, desde los organismos más primitivos hasta los grandes dinosaurios, los primeros mamíferos e incluso los primeros humanos"...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist-he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the course of the five-year journey around the globe in often...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Immersive non-fiction with STEM and social justice themes that proves that the future of the environment is in our hands-and helps pave the way forward. Evolution isn't just a thing of the past. It is happening right now, in every species across the world-and our influence on the future of the plants and animals around us is much bigger than we might think. A closer look at the science behind evolution shows how human behaviors like hunting, farming,...
Series
Clan of the claw volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Presents three linked novellas set in a heroic, bronze-age world, where mammalian courage against reptile cunning will determine who inherits the Earth.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Four and a half billion years ago, how did life emerge on Earth? Robert Hazen advances a startling idea, that the rocks on Earth were not only essential to jump-starting life, but then, life helped give birth to hundreds of minerals we rely upon today.
75) Inherit the wind
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Presents the script of the 1950s play loosely based on the events which took place in Dayton, Tennessee, during the Scopes Trial in July of 1925 which opened the debate over the teaching of creationism and evolution.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A paleontologist and a storyteller take two children through the birth of our planet to the present day, covering major geological periods and the evolution of life on Earth"--
"A very long time ago, somewhere in infinite space ... life began."-- cover page 4.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"They are the most iconic animals on Planet Earth - voracious crocodiles, acrobatic birds, majestic elephants, stupendous whales. To see them is to marvel - and to ask a surprisingly challenging question: Where did these amazing creatures come from? Traveling millions of years into the past, we unravel these iconic creatures' lineage - a story full of twists and turns, punctuated by dramatic events in earth history. Along the way we meet an extraordinary...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It has taken billions of years for Earth to become the planet it is today. When Planet Earth Was New looks back to the very beginning, using a poetic approach grounded in scientific fact to give an overview of how the planet has changed over time: from hot lava to the formation of oceans to the evolution of living things in water and on land. The book also includes the relatively recent evolution of humans - who are just a tiny speck in the sweep...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Meticulously researched, this comprehensive history of the famed liberal attorney Clarence Darrow's defense of John Scopes in a blockbuster legal proceeding that caught the attention of the nation calls upon our past to unite Americans in the defense of the free exchange of ideas.
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