Evolution  a Scientific American reader.  [electronic resource] : 

 -  University of Chicago Press,  c2006. 
 - 1 online resource (vii, 355 p.) :  ill., maps. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>The evolution of the universe / P. James Peebles, David N. Schramm, Edwin L. Turner and Richard G. Kron -- The first stars in the universe / Richard B. Larson and Volker Bromm -- Exploring our universe and others / Martin Rees -- Searching for life in our solar system / Bruce M. Jakosky -- The fate of life in the universe / Lawrence M. Krauss and Glenn D. Starkman -- Life's rocky start / Robert M. Hazen -- Misconceptions about the big bang / Charles H. Lineweaver and Tamara M. Davis -- The evolution of the Earth / Claude J. Allègre and Stephen H. Schneider -- Uprooting the tree of life / W. Ford Doolittle -- The birth of complex cells / Christian de Duve -- Viral quasispecies / Manfred Eigen -- How cells respond to stress / William J. Welch -- Cell communication : the inside story / John D. Scott and Tony Pawson -- Life, death and the immune system / Gustav J.V. Nossal -- Cybernetic cells / W. Wayt Bibbs -- Rulers of the Jurassic seas / Ryosuke Motani -- The mammals that conquered the seas / Kate Wong -- Breathing life in to Tyrannosaurus rex / Gregory M. Erickson -- Madagascar's Mesozoic secrets / John J. Flynn and André R. Wyss -- Which came first, the feather or the bird? / Richard O. Prum and Alan H. Brush -- The terror birds of South America / Larry G. Marshall -- The evolution of life on the Earth / Stephen Jay Gould -- An ancestor to call our own / Kate Wong -- Early Hominid fossils from Africa / Meave Leakey and Alan Walker -- Planet of the apes / David R. Begun -- Once we were not alone / Ian Tattersall -- Out of Africa again ... and again? / Ian Tattersall -- Who were the Neandertals? / Kate Wong -- Food for thought / William R. Leonard -- Skin deep / Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin -- The evolution of human birth / Karen R. Rosenberg and Wenda R. Trevathan -- Once were cannibals / Tim D. White -- If humans were built to last / S. Jay Olshansky, Bruce A. Carnes and Robert N. Butler. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226742731 (electronic bk.) 0226742733 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Evolution (Biology)<br/>Evolution.<br/>Biogenesis.<br/>Hominidae.<br/>SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Evolution.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>ევოლუცია (ბიოლოგია) 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QH366.2  / .E8492 2006eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>576.8 
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>575.8 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>2008 A-450 QH 366.2  / E915 2006