The pattern of evolution / Niles Eldredge.

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Main Author: Eldredge, Niles
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : W.H. Freeman, c1999.
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505 0 0 |g ch. 1.  |t Ode to Cecropia: discovering nature --  |g ch. 2.  |t Teasing the strands apart --  |g ch. 3.  |t Time, energy, and biological evolution --  |g ch. 4.  |t Evolution of the earth --  |g ch. 5.  |t Of genes and species: modern evolutionary theory --  |g ch. 6.  |t Cecropia moral: evolution and the realm of matter-in-motion. 
520 1 |a "In The Pattern of Evolution, Eldredge offers readers a fascinating view into this window of our world through time. As he and other researchers continue to uncover patterns in their respective fields, and as new disciplines emerge to straddle traditional scientific boundaries, the window grows wider. And some provocative questions arise: Are there connections between the ways the living and nonliving worlds function and evolve? In the aftermath of a tumultuous collision between the earth's biological and physical forces - a tropical storm of tremendous proportions - did the Cecropia tree Eldredge encountered merely survive the devastation, or did the storm clear its way?" "He examines the history of ideas on evolution from the beginning of the modern scientific era, about two centuries ago, to the present. Seizing on evidence of similar patterns across disciplines, he shows how important issues and events have brought us to the brink of a more comprehensive understanding of the earth. Learning how things work within and between systems is the key to realizing the relation between the world's living and nonliving parts. It is Eldredge's thesis that exploring the connections across systems will lead to the realization that biological evolution is driven by the same underlying forces that have shaped the geology of our planet."--Jacket. 
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