Evolution and belief : confessions of a religious paleontologist / / Robert J. Asher [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Asher Robert J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiii, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 576.8 |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Religion and science |
ISBN |
1-107-22332-6
1-139-23406-4 1-280-87773-1 9786613719041 1-139-23252-5 1-139-23029-8 1-139-22884-6 1-139-23330-0 1-139-23176-6 1-139-02252-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Science and religion. Darwinism, agency, and cause ; The most gifted biology writer of our time ; Methodological naturalism ; The compatibility delusion ; Theistic Christianity and evolution -- Evolution as a science. Historical science and naturalism ; Uniformitarianism and intelligent design ; Science and hypothesis testing ; Hypotheses derived from natural selection -- Characters and common descent. Evolutionary trees ; Living "intermediates" ; Reproduction on land and in water ; Amphibians and the Puerto Rican coqui ; Mammals and monotremes ; Marsupials and bandicoots ; The marsupial placenta ; Tarsiers ; Summary -- The fossil record. Stratigraphy ; Micro- and macroevolution ; Punctuated equilibrium ; Creationists and quote-mining ; Stephen Jay Gould and neo-Darwinism ; "Macroevolution" : species as individuals -- The roots of mammals. Synapsid jaw and ear bones ; Ear bones and development ; Mammalian lactation ; Roots of mammals : summary -- A brief history of elephants. Elephants and the big picture ; Elephants and English -- Whales are no fluke. Cetacean origins : molecules and mesonychids ; Toothed and baleen whales ; Baleen whale development and genetics -- Creationism : the fossils still say no! Agency and cause revisited -- DNA and the Tree of Life. Building trees with genes ; Anti-evolutionists and trees ; The nodes anatomy got wrong ; Afrotheria and the new tree of placental mammals -- DNA and information "creation". What does DNA do? ; Pseudogenes ; Viral DNA and function ; Mutation and color vision ; "Tuning knobs" and skull shape ; Origin of information and "macroevolution" ; Genetics, development, and the mammalian ear -- Biology and probability. Contingency ; Convergence ; Evolution is not random ; Selection and stickleback fish ; Probability and anti-evolutionism ; Exaptation -- Evolution, education, and conclusions. Academic freedom ; What did Darwin explain? ; Conclusions. |
Altri titoli varianti | Evolution & Belief |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461214403321 |
Asher Robert J. | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Evolution and belief : confessions of a religious paleontologist / / Robert J. Asher [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Asher Robert J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiii, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 576.8 |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Religion and science |
ISBN |
1-107-22332-6
1-139-23406-4 1-280-87773-1 9786613719041 1-139-23252-5 1-139-23029-8 1-139-22884-6 1-139-23330-0 1-139-23176-6 1-139-02252-0 |
Classificazione | SCI027000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Science and religion. Darwinism, agency, and cause ; The most gifted biology writer of our time ; Methodological naturalism ; The compatibility delusion ; Theistic Christianity and evolution -- Evolution as a science. Historical science and naturalism ; Uniformitarianism and intelligent design ; Science and hypothesis testing ; Hypotheses derived from natural selection -- Characters and common descent. Evolutionary trees ; Living "intermediates" ; Reproduction on land and in water ; Amphibians and the Puerto Rican coqui ; Mammals and monotremes ; Marsupials and bandicoots ; The marsupial placenta ; Tarsiers ; Summary -- The fossil record. Stratigraphy ; Micro- and macroevolution ; Punctuated equilibrium ; Creationists and quote-mining ; Stephen Jay Gould and neo-Darwinism ; "Macroevolution" : species as individuals -- The roots of mammals. Synapsid jaw and ear bones ; Ear bones and development ; Mammalian lactation ; Roots of mammals : summary -- A brief history of elephants. Elephants and the big picture ; Elephants and English -- Whales are no fluke. Cetacean origins : molecules and mesonychids ; Toothed and baleen whales ; Baleen whale development and genetics -- Creationism : the fossils still say no! Agency and cause revisited -- DNA and the Tree of Life. Building trees with genes ; Anti-evolutionists and trees ; The nodes anatomy got wrong ; Afrotheria and the new tree of placental mammals -- DNA and information "creation". What does DNA do? ; Pseudogenes ; Viral DNA and function ; Mutation and color vision ; "Tuning knobs" and skull shape ; Origin of information and "macroevolution" ; Genetics, development, and the mammalian ear -- Biology and probability. Contingency ; Convergence ; Evolution is not random ; Selection and stickleback fish ; Probability and anti-evolutionism ; Exaptation -- Evolution, education, and conclusions. Academic freedom ; What did Darwin explain? ; Conclusions. |
Altri titoli varianti | Evolution & Belief |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790143203321 |
Asher Robert J. | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Evolution and belief : confessions of a religious paleontologist / / Robert J. Asher |
Autore | Asher Robert J. |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiii, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 576.8 |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Religion and science |
ISBN |
1-107-22332-6
1-139-23406-4 1-280-87773-1 9786613719041 1-139-23252-5 1-139-23029-8 1-139-22884-6 1-139-23330-0 1-139-23176-6 1-139-02252-0 |
Classificazione | SCI027000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Science and religion. Darwinism, agency, and cause ; The most gifted biology writer of our time ; Methodological naturalism ; The compatibility delusion ; Theistic Christianity and evolution -- Evolution as a science. Historical science and naturalism ; Uniformitarianism and intelligent design ; Science and hypothesis testing ; Hypotheses derived from natural selection -- Characters and common descent. Evolutionary trees ; Living "intermediates" ; Reproduction on land and in water ; Amphibians and the Puerto Rican coqui ; Mammals and monotremes ; Marsupials and bandicoots ; The marsupial placenta ; Tarsiers ; Summary -- The fossil record. Stratigraphy ; Micro- and macroevolution ; Punctuated equilibrium ; Creationists and quote-mining ; Stephen Jay Gould and neo-Darwinism ; "Macroevolution" : species as individuals -- The roots of mammals. Synapsid jaw and ear bones ; Ear bones and development ; Mammalian lactation ; Roots of mammals : summary -- A brief history of elephants. Elephants and the big picture ; Elephants and English -- Whales are no fluke. Cetacean origins : molecules and mesonychids ; Toothed and baleen whales ; Baleen whale development and genetics -- Creationism : the fossils still say no! Agency and cause revisited -- DNA and the Tree of Life. Building trees with genes ; Anti-evolutionists and trees ; The nodes anatomy got wrong ; Afrotheria and the new tree of placental mammals -- DNA and information "creation". What does DNA do? ; Pseudogenes ; Viral DNA and function ; Mutation and color vision ; "Tuning knobs" and skull shape ; Origin of information and "macroevolution" ; Genetics, development, and the mammalian ear -- Biology and probability. Contingency ; Convergence ; Evolution is not random ; Selection and stickleback fish ; Probability and anti-evolutionism ; Exaptation -- Evolution, education, and conclusions. Academic freedom ; What did Darwin explain? ; Conclusions. |
Altri titoli varianti | Evolution & Belief |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826226003321 |
Asher Robert J. | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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