Do elephants have knees?
Subtitle: and other stories of Darwinian origins
By: Charles R. Ault Jr
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781501704673
Subjects: Popular works; Evolution (Biology); Natural selection; Anecdotes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Wonderful relationships : Darwinian stories of origins; title: "Curtiosity's" child : Bobby Darwin's impertinent early years; title: Darwin and the Pampas pirates : adventure in search of treasure; title: Fossils, folly, & faults : rounding South America; title: Irritating worms : the elderly Darwin fascinated by the intelligence of worms; title: A lungfish walked into the zoo : on the origin of limbs from lobe-fins; title: Out on a limb : sketching bone by bone from joint to joint at the zoo; title: Nosey elephants : a tale of trunks and tusks; title: The bearduck of Baleen : on the origin of new traits from existing ones; title: The saga of Mooshmael : the logic of family relationships; title: The higgledy-piggledy whale : Leviathan's walk, paddle, and gallop to the sea; title: Archaic chickengators : amniotic archosaur ancestors of dinosaurs and birds; title: Coral pigs and tide pool sheep : novel selections of behavior and anatomy; title: Epilogue. Femurs and footprints : on the trail of megabeasts.