Evolution a Scientific American reader.
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Table of Contents:
- The evolution of the universe / P. James Peebles, David N. Schramm, Edwin L. Turner and Richard G. Kron
- The first stars in the universe / Richard B. Larson and Volker Bromm
- Exploring our universe and others / Martin Rees
- Searching for life in our solar system / Bruce M. Jakosky
- The fate of life in the universe / Lawrence M. Krauss and Glenn D. Starkman
- Life's rocky start / Robert M. Hazen
- Misconceptions about the big bang / Charles H. Lineweaver and Tamara M. Davis
- The evolution of the Earth / Claude J. Allègre and Stephen H. Schneider
- Uprooting the tree of life / W. Ford Doolittle
- The birth of complex cells / Christian de Duve
- Viral quasispecies / Manfred Eigen
- How cells respond to stress / William J. Welch
- Cell communication : the inside story / John D. Scott and Tony Pawson
- Life, death and the immune system / Gustav J.V. Nossal
- Cybernetic cells / W. Wayt Bibbs
- Rulers of the Jurassic seas / Ryosuke Motani
- The mammals that conquered the seas / Kate Wong
- Breathing life in to Tyrannosaurus rex / Gregory M. Erickson
- Madagascar's Mesozoic secrets / John J. Flynn and André R. Wyss
- Which came first, the feather or the bird? / Richard O. Prum and Alan H. Brush
- The terror birds of South America / Larry G. Marshall
- The evolution of life on the Earth / Stephen Jay Gould
- An ancestor to call our own / Kate Wong
- Early Hominid fossils from Africa / Meave Leakey and Alan Walker
- Planet of the apes / David R. Begun
- Once we were not alone / Ian Tattersall
- Out of Africa again ... and again? / Ian Tattersall
- Who were the Neandertals? / Kate Wong
- Food for thought / William R. Leonard
- Skin deep / Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin
- The evolution of human birth / Karen R. Rosenberg and Wenda R. Trevathan
- Once were cannibals / Tim D. White
- If humans were built to last / S. Jay Olshansky, Bruce A. Carnes and Robert N. Butler.