02963nam 2200613Ia 450 991079035320332120230801223330.01-280-77259-X97866136833660-253-00717-8(CKB)2670000000207389(EBL)816878(OCoLC)796384119(SSID)ssj0000678565(PQKBManifestationID)11414979(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678565(PQKBWorkID)10727723(PQKB)11679720(MiAaPQ)EBC816878(OCoLC)821735658(MdBmJHUP)muse18246(Au-PeEL)EBL816878(CaPaEBR)ebr10571228(CaONFJC)MIL368336(EXLCZ)99267000000020738920120412d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOnce we all had gills[electronic resource] growing up evolutionist in an evolving world /Rudolf A. RaffBloomington, Ind. Indiana University Pressc20121 online resource (367 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-00235-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Makeovers20 Evolution MattersSelected Bibliography; IndexIn 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 BiologistsBiographyEvolution (Biology)BiologistsEvolution (Biology)570.92BRaff Rudolf A1490679MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790353203321Once we all had gills3712171UNINA