The Theory That Changed Everything: "On the Origin of Species" as a Work in Progress
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231178085 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Few people have done as much to change how we view the world as Charles Darwin. Some of it is considered outdated; in some ways, it has been consigned to the nineteenth century. He demystifies the role of recently identified transcriptional and epigenetic factors encoded in DNA, explaining how nineteenth-century Swedish famines alternating with years of plenty caused survivors' grandchildren to die many years short of their life expectancy. In The Theory That Changed Everything, the renowned cognitive scientist Philip Lieberman demonstrates that there is no better guide to the world's living things than Darwin, as the phenomena that he observed are still being
. He is the author of Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought (2002); Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language (2006); and The Unpredictable Species: What Makes Humans Unique (2013), among others. Philip Lieberman is George Hazard Crooker University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and P
(Christina Behme, Brandon University) . An awesome accompanying book for anyone who reads On the Origin of Species. (Rob DeSalle, curator of entomology at the American Museum of Natural History)Strikes a balance between the historical context in which Darwin made his remarkable contributions to science and contemporary scientific work