Why Evolution Is True

Why Evolution Is True
by Jerry A. Coyne

Why Evolution Is True
List Price: $27.95
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions

Book Summary Information

Author: Jerry A. Coyne
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2009-01-22
ISBN: 0670020532
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Viking Adult
Product features:

Book Reviews of Why Evolution Is True

Book Review: Most of us were raised into evolution
Summary: 1 Stars

The only thing I learned about Creationism at school was when the teacher showed us an overhead picture of a huge tree, a snake and Adam and Eve without clothes. He didn't say anything just showed us it for a few seconds kind of embaressed of the past. Today I wonder who wrote the first DNA book that is coding for the make up of the cell in the first cell in the ocean. Now scientists raise the question wether the universe came from another dimension or not (the string theory). It is also possible to believe that God created the first cell and Adam and Eve and evolution did the rest.

It is probably easier to grow up in a Muslim country believing in Creationism as written in the book of Genesis. Evolutionists tend to exclude God like som kind of fundamentalists.

Summary of Why Evolution Is True

Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact

In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design," there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection. Even Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, while extolling the beauty of evolution and examining case studies, have not focused on the evidence itself. Yet the proof is vast, varied, and magnificent, drawn from many different fields of science. Scientists are observing species splitting into two and are finding more and more fossils capturing change in the past-dinosaurs that have sprouted feathers, fish that have grown limbs.

Why Evolution Is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, paleontology, geology, molecular biology, and anatomy that demonstrate the "indelible stamp" of the processes first proposed by Darwin. In crisp, lucid prose accessible to a wide audience, Why Evolution Is True dispels common misunderstandings and fears about evolution and clearly confirms that this amazing process of change has been firmly established as a scientific truth.

General Books

Book Subjects
Most talked about in General Books
Tree of Knowledge ImageTree of Knowledge
by Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco Varela
Shambhala; Published: 1992-03-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $17.78
Price in other shops: $29.95
Did Man Create God? Is Your Spiritual Brain at Peace with Your Thinking Brain? ImageDid Man Create God? Is Your Spiritual Brain at Peace with Your Thinking Brain?
by David E. Comings
Hope Pr; Published: 2008-04-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $19.99
Price in other shops: $29.95
Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1 - Voyaging ImageCharles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1 - Voyaging
by Janet Browne
Pimlico; Published: 2003-08-07; Paperback; Book
Best price: $23.37
Price in other shops: $26.85
Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World ImageOxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
by Nick Lane
Oxford University Press, USA; Published: 2003-04-24; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $97.29
Darwin ImageDarwin
by Adrian J. Desmond, James R. Moore
Michael Joseph Ltd; Published: 1991-10-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $97.75
Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins ImageSmithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins
by Carl Zimmer
HarperCollins Publishers; Published: 2005-11-30; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.15
Price in other shops: $29.95
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life ImagePower, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
by Nick Lane
Oxford University Press, USA; Published: 2006-12-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.70
Price in other shops: $17.95
The Ascent of Man ImageThe Ascent of Man
by Jacob Bronowski
Little Brown & Co (T); Published: 1974-04; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $39.87
The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction ImageThe Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction
by Ph.D., Robert T. Bakker
Zebra; Published: 1988-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops: $12.95
After Man: A Zoology of the Future ImageAfter Man: A Zoology of the Future
by Dougal Dixon
St Martins Pr; Published: 1983-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $99.99
Similar Books and other products
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters ImageEvolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
by Donald R. Prothero
Columbia University Press; Published: 2007-10-11; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $20.97
Price in other shops: $29.50
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species ImageRemarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species
by Dr. Sean B. Carroll
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Published: 2009-02-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $15.94
Price in other shops: $26.00
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution ImageLife Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
by Nick Lane
W.W. Norton & Co.; Published: 2009-06-22; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.95
Price in other shops: $26.95
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage) ImageYour Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage)
by Neil Shubin
Vintage; Published: 2009-01-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.63
Price in other shops: $13.95
Why Evolution is a Fraud: A Secular and Common-Sense Deconstruction ImageWhy Evolution is a Fraud: A Secular and Common-Sense Deconstruction
by Tom Sutcliff
Red State Publishing, Inc.; Published: 2007-02-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $21.58
Price in other shops: $23.99
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul ImageOnly a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul
by Kenneth R. Miller
Viking Adult; Published: 2008-06-12; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.27
Price in other shops: $25.95
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists ImageGodless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
by Dan Barker
Ulysses Press; Published: 2008-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.28
Price in other shops: $14.95
The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason ImageThe New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason
by Victor J. Stenger
Prometheus Books; Published: 2009-09-22; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.68
Price in other shops: $19.00
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years ImageEvolution: The First Four Billion Years
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Published: 2009-02-28; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $24.29
Price in other shops: $39.95
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution ImageThe Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by Richard Dawkins
Free Press; Published: 2009-09-22; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.89
Price in other shops: $30.00