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When did life first appear on Earth? How did humans evolve? How did giraffe's necks get longer? Are humans now perfectly designed?
My First Book of Evolution answers these and many more questions about evolution and how it works in a fun and entertaining way.
Simple concepts such as what is a family tree, what is a species, what is a cell and more complex ideas of natural selection, adaptation, speciation and the inheritance of traits are explained clearly using imaginative and appealing charts, graphics and illustrations accompanied by simple, bite-size nuggets of explanatory text.
Contents
Life 4
The Family Tree 6
The Tree of Life 7
Species 8
Evolution 10
Natural selection 12
The Voyage of the Beagle 14
Developing the theory of natural selection 16
"The Origin of Species" 17
Adaptation to the environment 18
Heredity 20
Cells 22
Mutations 24
We are not all the same 26
Genetic variability 27
The (modern) theory of evolution 28
The evolution of life 30
Speciation 32
Microevolution and macroevolution 33
The peppered moth 34
The evolution of birds 36
Coevolution 38
Artificial selection 39
Fossils 40
Improvable "designs" 42
Extinction 43
LUCA 44
Future humans 46
Extraterrestrial life 46
