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The Origins of Life
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Roy A. Gallant |
Explores the many different myths, theories, and experiments which explain the origin of life, including spontaneous generation, the development of planets, chemical evolution of matter, and the vari… |
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Nature's best parents
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Tom Jackson |
Some animals have developed astonishing parenting techniques which ensure the survival of their species, even in the harshest of conditions. From emperor penguins, who share parenting duties and mana… |
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Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
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Mary Colson |
Presents a biography of two scientists who traveled the world separately and developed their ideas separately, but rather than becoming enemies, they both worked to promote acceptance of the controve… |
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Animals & plants
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John Bonnett Wexo |
Text and pictures discuss the evolution of plants and animals and compare some of today's animals with prehistoric ones. |
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From the beginning
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Peters, David |
Examines the history of life on Earth and traces the course of human evolution. |
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The Scopes Trial
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Stephanie Fitzgerald |
In the summer of 1925, the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, was home to a court case that many people called the trial of the century. The Scopes trial attracted worldwide attention as some of the be… |
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Darwin and the enchanted isles
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Irwin Shapiro |
Describes the events leading to Darwin's voyage on the Beagle and the subsequent theories on evolution he posed based mainly on observations made on the Galapagos Islands. |
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Skeletons that fit
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Margaret W. Merrill |
Surveys the evolution of animals according to their skeleton. |
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Symbiosis
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Alvin Silverstein |
Discusses the three kinds of symbiosis: mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism and describes examples of these relationships. |
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