LEADER 02963nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910790353203321 005 20230801223330.0 010 $a1-280-77259-X 010 $a9786613683366 010 $a0-253-00717-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000207389 035 $a(EBL)816878 035 $a(OCoLC)796384119 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000678565 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11414979 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678565 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10727723 035 $a(PQKB)11679720 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC816878 035 $a(OCoLC)821735658 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18246 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL816878 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10571228 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL368336 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000207389 100 $a20120412d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOnce we all had gills$b[electronic resource] $egrowing up evolutionist in an evolving world /$fRudolf A. Raff 210 $aBloomington, Ind. $cIndiana University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (367 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-00235-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; 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 327 $a20 Evolution MattersSelected Bibliography; Index 330 $aIn 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 606 $aBiologists$vBiography 606 $aEvolution (Biology) 615 0$aBiologists 615 0$aEvolution (Biology) 676 $a570.92 676 $aB 700 $aRaff$b Rudolf A$01490679 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790353203321 996 $aOnce we all had gills$93712171 997 $aUNINA