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  2. Ontogeny and Phylogeny - Wikipedia

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    Unlike his many popular books of essays, it was a technical book, and over the following decades it was influential in stimulating research into heterochrony (changes in the timing of embryonic development), which had been neglected since Ernst Haeckel's theory that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny [a] had been largely discredited.

  3. List of popular science books on evolution - Wikipedia

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    The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence. Neil Shubin (2008). Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. John Skoyles and Dorion Sagan (2002). Up from Dragons: The evolution of human intelligence. Cameron M. Smith and Charles Sullivan (2006). The Top 10 Myths About Evolution.

  4. Evolution as fact and theory - Wikipedia

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    Professor of biology Jerry Coyne sums up biological evolution succinctly: [3]. Life on Earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive species – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off many new and diverse species; and the mechanism for most (but not all) of evolutionary change is natural selection.

  5. On the Origin of Species - Wikipedia

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    Modern evolutionary theory continues to develop. Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, with its tree-like model of branching common descent, has become the unifying theory of the life sciences. The theory explains the diversity of living organisms and their adaptation to the environment.

  6. Darwinism - Wikipedia

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    Charles Darwin in 1868. Darwinism is a term used to describe a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others. The theory states that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.

  7. Why Evolution is True - Wikipedia

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    Why Evolution is True is a popular science book by American biologist Jerry Coyne. It was published in 2009, dubbed "Darwin Year" as it marked the bicentennial of Charles Darwin and the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the publication of his On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection .

  8. 'World-changing' book claims to 'dismantle' the theory of ...

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    According to Axe, the research he provides with his book disproves Darwin's theory of evolution, revealing "a gaping hole has been at its center from the beginning." Click through 10 books that ...

  9. Outline of evolution - Wikipedia

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    Level of support for evolution – Variation in support for the theory of evolution; Objections to evolution – Arguments that have been made against evolution; Social effects of evolutionary theory – Effects on human societies of the scientific explanation of life's diversity; Theology of creationism and evolution – Topic in theology