Once We All Had Gills: Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World

Raff, Rudolf A.

ISBN 10: 0253002354 / ISBN 13: 9780253002358

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2012

Beschreibung

HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M0253002354Z3

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Once We All Had Gills: Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0253002354
• ISBN-13: 9780253002358
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Good

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

In this book, Rudolf A. Raff reaches out to the scientifically queasy, using his life story and his growth as a scientist to illustrate why science matters, especially at a time when many Americans are both suspicious of science and hostile to scientific ways of thinking. Noting that science has too often been the object of controversy in school curriculums and debates on public policy issues ranging from energy and conservation to stem-cell research and climate change, Raff argues that when the public is confused or ill-informed, these issues tend to be decided on religious, economic, and political grounds that disregard the realities of the natural world. Speaking up for science and scientific literacy, Raff tells how and why he became an evolutionary biologist and describes some of the vibrant and living science of evolution. Once We All Had Gills is also the story of evolution writ large: its history, how it is studied, what it means, and why it has become a useful target in a cultural war against rational thought and the idea of a secular, religiously tolerant nation.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rudolf A. Raff is James H. Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University and one of the founders of the field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). He is director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute, editor-in-chief of Evolution & Development, Guggenheim Fellow, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is author of The Shape of Life: Genes, Development, and Evolution of Animal Form and author (with Thom Kaufman) of Embryos, Genes, and Evolution.