About this title: How did we ever get ashore? How did we make legs, arms and our extremely complex intelligence? Evolution is one of the most hotly debated areas of popular science. With this book, the author presents an accessible account of one of evolution's great mysteries - how microbes turned into humans.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1999-09-08
ISBN-13:9780684856230ISBN:0684856239
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: TOUCHSTONE PRESS
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780684856230ISBN:0684856239
Description: New. Everybody Out of the Pond "At the Water's Edge" will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to "Homo sapiens" today is an epic that we are only... read more
Description: New. We are no longer able to guarantee delivery by Christmas. Everybody Out of the Pond"At the Water's Edge" will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to "Homo sapiens" today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is the story of how we got here, what we left behind, and what we brought with us. We all know about evolution, but it still seems ... read more
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"Includes some history of paleontology and the theory of evolution, as well as specific discoveries. I found the chapters about whales at the end particularly interesting."
"Fabulous. This explication of macroevolution is dense but very clear. There are passages that simply sing. Zimmer is getting to be one of my very favorite science writers. If you have any interest in cetaceans, you should read this book. Highly recommended.
Here's a bit I loved: "The seeds of a more surprising redemption of some of Haeckel's ideas came from the work of a mathematician named Alan Turing. Scientists who live on the harsh, lifeless plains of the physical sciences sometimes look at biology as a vacation spot - a lush green island they can visit, make a few groundbreaking discoveries, then head back to the quantum steppes. After all, they say to themselves, if you know the laws of electrons and protons, if you can solve differential equations, you already know how Life works. Most of these scientists barely get off the plane before they discover that they were wrong - that biology's island paradise is a sweet-smelling swamp - and they either sink out of sight or catch the next flight out. But a few, such as Alan Turing, have managed to discover some original biological principles.""
"Dec. 21--This book is just outstanding! It is the only book that clearly shows how natural selection and evolution really >work< through macroevolution, or the evolution of large body structures. The story that Zimmer relates of how some critters have gone into the sea, back to the land, and repeated this several times, taught me stuff that even I hadn't heard about (as an eclectic reader of evolutionary biology tomes). There's also a fine amount of the history of paleontology woven into the book, along with a great review of recent paleotological field work and what it means to our understanding of various dead critters. Read this book not only for the pleasure of the reading, but because it will easily supply you with rebuttal points for some of the creationist/ID drivel that still flutters around the US of A. Tom."
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