Peter D Ward
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Around the turn of the nineteenth century, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first established epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory was supplanted decades later by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection through heritable genetic mutations. But natural selection could not adequately explain how rapidly species re-diversified and repopulated after mass extinctions. Now advances in the study of DNA and...
4) A new history of life: the radical new discoveries about the origins and evolution of life on earth
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The history of life on Earth is, in some form or another, known to us all-- or so we think. [This book] offers a provocative new account, based on the latest scientific research, of how modern lifeforms evolved"--Amazon.com.