30-Second Evolution: The 50 Most Significant Ideas and Events, Each explained in Half a Minute

Adapt or die: its natures most famous imperative. But how does evolution actually happen? Its too slow to see, but its going on all around you, all the time. Even if youre on top of the key termsvariation? Natural selection? Parent-offspring conflict?you still need some context to put them in. From populations to speciation, and polymorphism to evolutionary psychology, heres the one-stop source for all you need to know. 30-Second Evolution unlocks the laboratory of life, dissecting it into the 50 most significant topics that provide the missing links to understand the natural worlds four-billion-year ancestry and the process of natural selection in which species either adapt in myriad ways mutation, ingenuity, and intelligenceto meet the challenges of a changing environment, or die. Unravel the development of living organisms, at micro and macro levelfrom genes to geniuses.

ISBN: 9781848318403

Pages: 160

Hardcover

Ivy Press, 2015

Good condition

B21