Into the Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution"Invites students to step into the lives of naturalists who followed their dreams, and often risked their lives, to explore the unknown. Each of the nine stories in this brief reader chronicles the dramatic adventures of an influential zoologist, geologist, paleontologist, or geneticist on their path to some of the most important discoveries that have shaped our understanding of how life has evolved. Cultivates an understanding of the physical hardships the featured explorers endured and the obstacles they had to overcome in challenging societal belief systems and initiating paradigm shifts in the scientific community" - from publisher. |
Contents
Drawing the Line between Monkeys and Kangaroos | 35 |
PART | 65 |
PART THREE | 111 |
Copyright | |
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adventures AFGP gene Africa Allison Alvarez Amazon American Museum animals Antarctic Archipelago Asia asteroid Bali Bates biology birds blood bones butterflies Captain FitzRoy cells Charles Darwin Chicxulub coast coelacanth crater Cretaceous DeVries dinosaur discovery Dubois Earth eggs Eugène Dubois evolution exploration extinct Figure fish Flaming Cliffs forams fossil Galapagos genetic geologist geology Granger Gubbio Haeckel Henslow heterozygote homozygotes human Huxley ibid icefish impact iridium islands Java K-T boundary knew layer Leanne Olds Leptalis living Lombok Luis Lyell malaria Malay Archipelago mammals Marjorie miles million years ago mimicry missing link Mongolia Museum of Natural mutation myoglobin Natural History natural selection naturalist notothenioids ocean origin paleontologist percent Photo Pithecanthropus protein rock Roy Chapman Andrews Roy's Ruud scientific scientists ship sickle sickle-cell trait skull Smith snakes South species specimens stories Sumatra tektites theory thought Tony Tony's tropical trypsinogen voyage Wallace Wallace's whale wrote