The Darwinian tourist : viewing the world through evolutionary eyes / Christopher Wills ; with photographs by the author
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford [England] New York [N.Y.] Oxford University Press 2010Description: xiii, 345 p. ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps 26 cmISBN:- 0-19-958438-9 (hbk.)
- 978-0-19-958438-3 (hbk.)
- Wills, Christopher -- Travel
- Biodiversity conservation -- Popular works
- Biological Evolution -- Popular Works
- Ecology -- Popular works
- Evolution (Biology) -- Popular works
- Human beings -- Migrations -- Popular works
- Human ecology -- Popular works
- Human evolution -- Popular works
- Biologisk mångfald
- Ekologi
- Evolution (biologi)
- 576.8
- Ueaa
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-334) and index
The living world. Shape-shifters ; The inner workings of evolution ; The shifting earth ; Crucibles of speciation ; Rainforests, diseases, and speciation -- The human story. How domesticated animals changed the world ; The great migration ; The San and the Hobbits -- A final postcard
Wills shares with us some of the extraordinary sights he has seen, exploring each time the evolutionary processes that underlie the beauty and diversity of the wildlife