The Theory That Changed Everything: "On the Origin of Species" as a Work in Progress
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (779 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231178085 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Rob DeSalle, curator of entomology at the American Museum of Natural History)Strikes a balance between the historical context in which Darwin made his remarkable contributions to science and contemporary scientific work. (Christina Behme, Brandon University) . An awesome accompanying book for anyone who reads On the Origin of Species
Lieberman is equally at home decoding supermarket shelves and climbing with the Sherpas as he discusses how natural selection explains features from lactose tolerance to ease of breathing at Himalayan altitudes. Yet On the Origin of Species is more cited than read. Some of it is considered outdated; in some ways, it has been consigned to the nineteenth century. Few people have done as much to change how we view the world as Charles Darwin. He demystifies the role of recently identified transcriptional and epigenetic factors encoded in DNA, explaining how nineteenth-century Swedish famines alternating with years of plenty caused survivors' grandchildren to die many years short of their life expectancy. With conversational clarity and memorable examples, Lieberman relates the insights that led to groundbreaking discoveries in both Darwin's time and our own while asking provocative question
Philip Lieberman is George Hazard Crooker University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. He is the author of Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought (2002); Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language (2006); and The Unpredictable Species: What Makes Humans Unique (2013), among others.