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Author Wagner, Andreas, 1967 January 26-

Title Arrival of the fittest : solving evolution's greatest puzzle / Andreas Wagner.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Group, [2014]

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  QH375 .W327 2014    Available  ---
Description viii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and index.
Contents World enough, and time -- What Darwin didn't know -- The origin of innovation -- The universal library -- Shapely beauties -- Command and control -- The hidden architecture -- From nature to technology -- Plato's cave.
Summary "Wagner draws on over fifteen years of research to present the missing piece in Darwin's theory. Using experimental and computational technologies that were heretofore unimagined, he has found that adaptations are not just driven by chance, but by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take"--Amazon.com.
Subject Natural selection.
Natural selection.
Evolutionary genetics.
Evolutionary genetics.
Variation (Biology)
ISBN 1591846463
9781591846468