The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution - Synopsis

Synopsis

The book is divided into 13 chapters spanning over 400 pages, and includes an appendix called "The History-Deniers" in the end material.

  1. Only a Theory? (Nature of scientific theory and fallibility)
  2. Dogs, Cows and Cabbages (Artificial Selection)
  3. The Primrose Path to Macro-Evolution
  4. Silence and Slow Time (Discusses the Age of the Earth and the Geological Time Scale)
  5. Before Our Very Eyes (Examples of Evolution Observed)
  6. Missing link? What do you mean, 'Missing'? (the fossil record)
  7. Missing persons? Missing no longer (Human Evolution)
  8. You did it yourself in nine months (a statement attributed to J. B. S. Haldane; discusses developmental biology)
  9. The ark of the continents (biogeography and plate tectonics)
  10. The tree of cousinship (the tree of life, homology and analogy)
  11. History written all over us (vestigiality and unintelligent design)
  12. Arms races and 'evolutionary theodicy' (coevolution and evolutionary arms races)
  13. There is grandeur in this view of life (based on the final passage of On the Origin of Species)

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