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Children of Prometheus Christopher Wills

Children of Prometheus par Christopher Wills

Children of Prometheus Christopher Wills


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Résumé

Are we still evolving? Or has our mastery of the environment stopped evolution in its tracks? Spurred by a rapidly changing environment, and acting on our ever-expanding gene pool, Wills argues that natural selection will take us into uncharted territory, revealing a future rich with the promise of increased cultural and genetic diversity.

Children of Prometheus Résumé

Children of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution Christopher Wills

Scientists have grappled with the question "are we still evolving?" since the time of Darwin. In this book, Christopher Wills argues that people are not only continuing to evolve, but that their pace of change is accelerating. Wills explores evolution's mysterious ways - both visible and unseen - examining the rapid short-term evolutionary change taking place in people living at the earth's extremes and the new physiology of those who participate in extreme sports.

Sommaire

Part 1 The many faces of natural selection: authorities disagree; natural selection can be subtle; living at the edge of space; beseiged by invisible armies; perils of the Civil Service; farewell to the master race. Part 2 Our stormy evolutionary history: the road we did not take; why are we such evolutionary speed demons?; bottlenecks and selective sweeps; sticking out like Cyrano's nose. Part 3 Selection for diversity; going to extremes; how brain functions evolve; the final objection; our evolutionary future.

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GOR001997646
9780713993486
0713993480
Children of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution Christopher Wills
Occasion - Très bon état
Relié
Penguin Books Ltd
1999-08-26
320
Short-listed for Aventis Prizes for Science Books: General Prize 2000 Short-listed for Aventis Prize for Science Books 2000
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