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- The Brain That Changes Itself
Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises.
- Evolution
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia Resource Type: Article In biology, evolution is change in the genetic material of a population of organisms through successive generations. Although the changes produced in a single generation are normally small, the accumulation of these differences over time can cause substantial changes in a population, a process that can result in the emergence of new species. Similarities among species suggest that all known species descended from a common ancestor (or ancestral gene pool) through this process of gradual divergence.
- The Greatest Show on Earth
The Evidence for Evolution Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Dawkins explains the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdity of creationism.
- Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 Nick Lane expertly reconstructs the history of life by describing the ten greatest inventions of evolution (including DNA, photosynthesis, sex, and sight), based on their historical impact, role in organisms today, and relevance to current controversies.
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
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- Plastics, tiny penises, and human evolution
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Setting aside the question of whether plastics (or obesity or carbonated corn syrup-laced beverages or the presence of step-dads or hormones in beef or any other factor) are behind changes in our patterns of sexual maturity, what about the possible future? Does evolutionary theory support the idea that xenoestrogens and other endocrine disruption could lead us limping to a kind of slow rolling human apocalypse?
- Royal BC Museum
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- The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould
Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 Stephen Jay Gould was not only a leading paleontologist and evolutionary theorist, he was also a humanist with an enduring interest in the history and philosophy of science. The extraordinary range of Goulds work was underpinned by a richly nuanced and deeply insightful worldview. Richard York and Brett Clark engage Goulds science and humanism to illustrate and develop the intellectual power of Goulds worldview, particularly with regard to the philosophy of science.
- Senckenbergische Naturforschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
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- Speciation
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia Resource Type: Article Speciation is the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise.
- Stephen Jay Gould: Dialectical Biologist
Resource Type: Article Published: 2002 Gould, the worlds leading expert on the evolution of Bahamian land snails, and one of the most influential evolutionary theorists of his generation, shared Engels enthusiasm for understanding the natural world dialectically in other words, seeing it as made up of complex and dynamic interactive processes.
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