Fossils have been vital to our understanding of the formation of the Earth and the origins of life on it.

Scientists and thologians had long been debating the religious implicaitons of evolutionary theory when Darwin announced his theory of natural selection.

This exciting book tells the story of the grandest period of fossil discovery in American history, the years from 1750 to 1890.

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An assessment of the third President's lesser-known passion for science explores his achievements as a consummate intellectual whose scientific views were central to his public and private life, offering insight into how Jefferson's ...

This book is the first to inquire into the range of influences and ideas, the mentors and rivals, and the formal and informal education that shaped Charles Darwin and prepared him for his remarkable career of scientific achievement.

Looking at the aesthetic, literary and intellectual aspects of science, this work sets out to convey what is involved in being a scientist today. Science is described as a great adventure, a search for why things are as they are.

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Early Pattern Formation. 5. Example: Early Pattern Formation in Amphibia. 6. Later Pattern Formation: Morphogenesis. 7. Some General Properties of Morphogenetic Systems. 8. Patterns of Evolution. 9. Morphogenesis and Evolution.