99% ape
Subtitle: how evolution adds up
By: Jonathan Silvertown.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780226757780
Subjects: Evolution (Biology) -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works.
Other titles: Ninety-nine percent ape
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins; title: 99% ape; title: Evolution liberates; title: Evolutionary trees; title: Darwin, apes & Victorians; title: Darwin's insights; title: What's in 1%?; title: Darwin's brilliant idea; title: Design without a designer; title: Canine friends in sickness and in health; title: Natural selection; title: The tree of life; title: Scientific classification of species; title: Cracking the mystery of species; title: Ideas on trial; title: The geological timescale; title: Darwin's evolving ideas; title: Branches and trees; title: Enter the star witness: DNA; title: First life; title: The meaning of life; title: Life's first spark; title: Earliest signs; title: Life in hot water; title: Extraterrestrials; title: African genesis; title: In the beginning; title: The "prime" animals; title: History from molecules; title: Body building; title: An eye for Darwin; title: Variety; title: Eye design; title: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue; title: A fish out of water; title: Becoming terrestrial; title: Fishy relations; title: Hiding in the deep blue sea; title: Extinct and extant amphibians; title: Fish fingers; title: Resurrecting genes; title: Many were called, few were chosen; title: A whale of a problem; title: After the dinosaurs; title: Aquatic for life; title: Whale characters; title: Whale origins; title: Sines point the way; title: Ancient whales; title: Steps to leglessness; title: Feathered fossils; title: Fossilized families; title: German aviation and Chinese dragons; title: Chicken feathers; title: Forming feathers: an orderly death; title: Genes and fossils reconciled; title: New structures, same old genes; title: Diversity; title: In the genes; title: The family face; title: Chromosome choreography; title: Genes for every occasion; title: Why be different?; title: New species from old; title: On the origin of "what"; title: Losing touch; title: Speedy speciation; title: Knowing your own; title: Homebound lives; title: The leaky boundaries of species; title: Chromosome doubling: a quick recipe for greens; title: No sex, please, we're budding; title: Fossils and species; title: Darwin's finches; title: Evolution isles; title: The fame of the finch; title: From one species to fifteen; title: Beaks and seeds; title: Beaks and genes; title: A lifetime's work; title: The flowers of evolution; title: First plants; title: Russian dolls and malaria; title: The greening of the land; title: The rise of the flowering plants; title: New patterns among the green branches of the tree of life; title: A big flower with small beginnings; title: Madagascan star orchid; title: The race from Africa; title: The end of the line for homo; title: The human saga written in DNA; title: Technological advances; title: Oil-and-water, or a cocktail?; title: The y in Asia; title: Neanderthals: a skeleton in our cupboard?; title: The race from Africa, timed by the molecular clock; title: Here and now; title: Catch me if you can; title: Truce or consequences; title: Friend and foe; title: Evolving disease; title: Gene swapping; title: Ideal homes for microbes; title: Dangerous responses; title: Hitchhiking between hosts; title: Lousy evolution; title: Darwin in mind; title: Evolutionary psychology; title: Hunter-gatherer hangovers; title: Culture club; title: Why be good?; title: Good behaviour; title: Gameplay; title: The origin of morals; title: In the public eye; title: For as you were when first your eye I eyed; title: The science of evolution; title: Evolution versus creation: science and non-science; title: The scopes monkey trial; title: Creationism in disguise; title: Evolution and religion; title: Logos and mythos; title: What next?; title: Are we still evolving?; title: Spectacles and evolution; title: Old age: when natural selection retires; title: The long view; title: Evolution in the anthropocene.