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The Joy of Science

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Science is an Elf
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    Chapter 2 The Origin of the Earth and of Species of Animals and Plants as Seen Before the Enlightenment
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    Chapter 3 The Seashells on the Mountaintop
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    Chapter 4 Were Kangaroos on Noah’s Ark?
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    Chapter 5 Aristotle’s and Linnaeus’ Classifications of Living Creatures
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    Chapter 6 Darwin’s World—Species, Varieties, And the Age of the Earth. Evidences of Glaciation
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    Chapter 7 The Voyage of The Beagle
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    Chapter 8 Is the Earth Old Enough for Evolution?
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    Chapter 9 Evaluating Data
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    Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution, Population Potential, Malthus, Social Pressure, and Competition
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    Chapter 11 Natural Selection: the Second Half of Darwin’s Hypothesis
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    Chapter 12 Darwin’s Hypothesis
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    Chapter 13 The Crisis in Evolution
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    Chapter 14 The chemical Basis of Evolution
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    Chapter 15 The stuff of Inheritance: DNA, RNA, and Mutations
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    Chapter 16 The Genetic Code
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    Chapter 17 The Story of Our Planet
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    Chapter 18 The Appearance of Oxygen
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    Chapter 19 The Conquest of Land—Every Criterion for the Classification of the Major Groups of Animals and Plants Refers to Adaptations for Life on Land
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    Chapter 20 The Great Ages of Our Planet
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    Chapter 21 Return to Water and to Land
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    Chapter 22 Evidence for Extinctions—why do we get them?
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    Chapter 23 The Violence of the Earth: Rainshadows and Volcanoes
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    Chapter 24 Competition Among Species
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    Chapter 25 Sexual Selection
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    Chapter 26 Coevolution
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    Chapter 27 The Importance of Disease
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    Chapter 28 The Aids Murder Mystery—What Constitutes Proof?
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    Chapter 29 The Evolution of Humans
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    Chapter 30 When did Humans Acquire a Soul?
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    Chapter 31 The Impact of Evolutionary Theory: The Eugenics Society and the I.Q.Test
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    Chapter 32 Evaluating Population Measurements: Bell Curves, Statistics, and Probability
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    Chapter 33 Conclusions—where do we go from here?
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Title
The Joy of Science
Published by
Springer Netherlands, November 2007
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-6099-1
ISBNs
978-1-4020-6098-4, 978-1-4020-6099-1
Editors

Lockshin, Richard A.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 43 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 19%
Researcher 6 14%
Student > Bachelor 5 12%
Lecturer 4 9%
Student > Master 3 7%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 11 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 19%
Environmental Science 4 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 7%
Social Sciences 3 7%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 7%
Other 11 26%
Unknown 11 26%