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Books
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B DARWIN 1 - VOYAGING
ISBN
0394579429 0679429328
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Format:
Books
Call Number:
J B DARWIN
Publication Date:
2001
Accelerated Reader Level:
8.3
Accelerated Reader Points:
1.0
Lexile Measure:
1150
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Summary:
A biography of the English naturalist who, after collecting plants and animals from around the world, came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection.
ISBN
1575723689 :
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CD
Call Number:
CD-SPOKEN B DARWIN
Publication Date:
2012
Summary:
Johnson brings the gentleman-scientist and his times brilliantly into focus. From Darwin's birth into great fortune to his voyage aboard the Beagle, to the long-delayed publication of his masterpiece, Johnson delves into what made this Victorian gentleman into a visionary scientist--and into the tragic flaws that later led Darwin to support the burgeoning eugenics movement.
ISBN
9781464046605: 1464046603
Author:
Format:
Books
Call Number:
J B DARWIN
Publication Date:
2002
Accelerated Reader Level:
7.7
Accelerated Reader Points:
2.0
Series:
ISBN
1567116558
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Format:
Books
Call Number:
J 575.0092 PAR
Publication Date:
1995
Accelerated Reader Level:
7.3
Accelerated Reader Points:
1.0
ISBN
0791030075 :
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Books
Call Number:
J B DARWIN
Publication Date:
1994
Accelerated Reader Level:
4.3
Accelerated Reader Points:
2.0
Series:
ISBN
0894904760 :
Author:
Format:
Books
Call Number:
J B DARWIN
Publication Date:
2010
Accelerated Reader Level:
8.4
Accelerated Reader Points:
4.0
Lexile Measure:
1110
Series:
Summary:
Traces the life and work of the British biologist made famous by his controversial theory of natural selection.
ISBN
9780670063352 0670063355
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Format:
Books
Call Number:
J B DARWIN
Publication Date:
2009
Accelerated Reader Level:
6.8
Accelerated Reader Points:
1.0
Lexile Measure:
1050
Summary:
Describes the life and work of the renowned nineteenth-century biologist who transformed conventional Western thought with his theory of natural evolution.
ISBN
076361436X 9780763614362
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Format:
Books
Call Number:
J B DARWIN
Publication Date:
2009
Accelerated Reader Level:
6.4
Accelerated Reader Points:
1.0
Lexile Measure:
1060
ISBN
9780618995318 0618995315
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Video recording
Call Number:
EVIDEO
Publication Date:
2014
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Darwin's revolution in thought using evolutionary biology, history of science, and social history as his canvas, Gould paints the fascinating picture of how human biases (philosophical, cultural, and spiritual) have continued to resist Darwin's theory, inverting it into its own philosophical opposite. "If there's one thing we desperately want evolution to be, it's a principle that predicts progress ... but it just isn't so."-- Stephen Jay Gould. For the first time on video, Stephen Jay Gould presents his definitive treatise on Charles Darwin's unique and radical contribution to evolutionary biology- and why it has been so poorly understood. Filmed before a live audience, this program has been used in colleges, universities, and schools around the world.
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Video recording
Call Number:
EVIDEO
Publication Date:
2014
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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A single great idea: the theory of natural selection. With it, Charles Darwin shattered existing notions of the natural world by demonstrating how complexity could arise as a result of a blind and mechanistic sorting process, without an "intelligent designer". Now, join Daniel Dennett as he illuminates the radical nature of Darwin's dangerous idea. Setting his stage, Dennett illustrates why skeptics insist that beyond "gradual change" evolution must require something supernatural to do the "heavy lifting" of design--miraculous "lifters" which Dennett calls "skyhooks". Instead, Dennett demonstrates that we don't need miracles or "skyhooks" because evolution gives us "cranes": from sexual reproduction, to multi-cellularity, to language, he illustrates how cranes are new designs which themselves have evolutionary explanations and which, once they exist, become the tools to create previously impossible designs -from birds and humans, to ideas and culture. Next, Dennett turns to the "memetic revolution", and proposes how memes (the cultural analog of genes) can explain the extraordinary phenomenon of human culture. In surprising fashion, he cites Toxoplasma Gondi and brain fluke parasites (which cause suicidal behaviour in their hosts) to suggest why we don't need "skyhooks" to account for uniquely human attributes. He demonstrates how morality, ethics, the appreciation of beauty, or the willingness to die for an ideology are ideas (memes) which have, like parasites hijacking the human brain, superceded the strict imperative of reproductive success. Daniel Dennett's provocative, and highly entertaining presentation will inspire your students think about the natural world and the nature of human beings in surprising new ways. Dennett stands as the sharpest, cleverest, most stylish prober of issues of human consciousness (and) evolutionary theory. Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Enquirer.
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Format:
Books
Call Number:
576.8 QUA
Publication Date:
2006
Series:
ISBN
0393059812
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