Who discovered natural selection?
By: Anna Claybourne
Series: Breakthroughs in science and technology; Breakthroughs in science and technology (Franklin Watts)
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9781445100562
Subjects: Natural selection; Juvenile literature; Evolution (Biology); Discoveries in science; Genes
Description: "Who Discovered Natural Selection? explains how scientists worked out the way in which living things evolve. From ancient times, scholars suspected that life on earth had not always been the way it appears today. Then in the 19th century, the great naturalist Charles Darwin came up with what is now believed to be the explanation: the theory of evolution by natural selection. This extraordinary discovery has become the cornerstone of modern biology."--B.cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 45) and index.
Table of contents: title: What is natural selection?; title: Early ideas; title: Fossil finds; title: Evolution: the great debate; title: The age of the Earth; title: Selective breeding; title: Who was Darwin?; title: The voyage of the Beagle; title: Darwin's discoveries; title: Secret studies; title: Evidence for evolution; title: Darwin's big idea; title: Out in the open; title: On the origin of species; title: Darwin's great works; title: Discovering genes; title: Understanding genes; title: Was Darwin right?; title: Natural selection, from now on.