num_pages: 141
description: Starting with the first one-celled organisms a world famous biologist analyzes the broad processes of evolution: the pattern of genetic structure; the formation adaptation and specialization of species; heredity; mutations; and natural selection--in short the mechanisms and principles common to all life.Passing from the general to the specific he lucidly explains how in advancement toward general efficiency new capacities appear such as the ability to fly or to learn by experience--capacities that may lead a species to a blind alley of specialization or to further progress or even (uniquely with man) to a point where the species may learn how to control the course of its own development.
language: English
title: Evolution in Action
publisher: Harper & Row