Domesticated: Evolution in a Man Made World - Hardcover

Francis, Richard C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393064603 ISBN 13: 9780393064605

Verlag: Norton, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The amazing story of how certain ancient animals chose to live near humans, thus sealing their evolutionary fate.

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Richard C. Francis is a science journalist with a PhD in neurobiology from Stony Brook University. He is the author of the acclaimed books Domesticated, Epigenetics, and Why Men Won’t Ask for Directions.

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A natural storyteller, Richard C. Francis weaves history, archaeology, and anthropology to create a fascinating narrative while seamlessly integrating the most cutting-edge ideas in twenty-first-century biology, from genomics to evo-devo. Each domesticated species is a case study in evolution. Two key themes emerge: that domestication often results in the retention of juvenile traits, and that, for all the spectacular alterations wrought by natural and artificial selection, evolution remains fundamentally a conservative process: the Pekingese, for example, retains ample evidence of its wolf ancestry. In the final chapters, Francis explores the ways in which these themes apply to human evolution.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Norton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393064603
• ISBN 13: 9780393064605
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
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