| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910462374103321 |
|
|
Autore |
Raff Rudolf A |
|
|
Titolo |
Once we all had gills [[electronic resource] ] : growing up evolutionist in an evolving world / / Rudolf A. Raff |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Bloomington, Ind., : Indiana University Press, c2012 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-280-77259-X |
9786613683366 |
0-253-00717-8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (367 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Biologists |
Evolution (Biology) |
Electronic books. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1 Becoming a Naturalist; 1 Space-Time; 2 Layers of the Past; 3 An Age of Dinosaurs; 4 A School a Minute; 5 In the Natural World; 6 Transformations; 7 Going South; 8 Learning to Love the Bomb; 9 On the Road to Chiapas; 10 The Masked Messenger; Part 2 Finding Evolution, Founding Evo-Devo; 11 Evolution as Science; 12 Dining with Darwin; 13 Life with Sea Urchins; 14 Embryos Evolving; 15 Evolution in the Tasman Sea; 16 An Alternate Present; 17 Biology Meets Fossils; Part 3 Strange New World; 18 Darwin's Day in Court; 19 Creationist Makeovers |
20 Evolution MattersSelected Bibliography; Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
In this book, Rudolf A. Raff reaches out to the scientifically queasy, using his life story and his growth as a scientist to illustrate why science matters, especially at a time when many Americans are both suspicious of science and hostile to scientific ways of thinking. Noting that science has too often been the object of controversy in school curriculums and debates on public policy issues ranging from energy and conservation to stem-cell research and climate change, Raff argues that when the public is confused or ill-informed, these issues tend to |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
be decided on religious, economic, and |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910696574703321 |
|
|
Autore |
Billingsley George H |
|
|
Titolo |
Geologic map of the Valle 30ʹ x 60ʹ quadrangle, Coconino County, northern Arizona [[electronic resource] /] / by George H. Billingsley, Tracey J. Felger, and Susan S. Priest ; prepared in cooperation with the National Park Service |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Flagstaff, Ariz. : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2006 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[Version 1.0.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 electronic map : HTML, digital, PDF file |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Scientific investigations map ; ; 2895 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Altri autori (Persone) |
|
FelgerTracey J |
PriestSusan S |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Geology - Arizona - Coconino County |
Maps. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale cartografico a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Relief shown by contours. |
Title from PDF title screen (viewed on Apr. 15, 2008). |
Accompanied by pamphlet (22 p.). |
Includes text, 1 index map, one location diagram, 2 colored ancillary maps and 3 colored cross sections. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (pages 20-22 of pamphlet). |
|
|
|
|
|
| |