Evolution What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters

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EVOLUTION WHAT THE FOSSILS SAY AND WHY IT MATTERS SECOND EDITION DONALD R. PROTHERO With Original Illustrations by Carl Buell CO ...

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Foreword: Why People Do Not Accept Evolution xi To the Reader: Is Evolution a Threat to Your Religious Beliefs? xvii Prologue: F ...

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Part I. EVOLUTION AND THE FOSSIL RECORD Acknowledgments xxiii 1 The Nature of Science What Is Science? Science and Belief Syste ...

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Thomas Henry Huxley proclaimed the Origin of Species to be “the most potent instru- ment for the extension of the realm of knowl ...

xii Foreword: Why People Do Not Accept Evolution neoconservative social commentator Irving Kristol: “If there is one indisputabl ...

Foreword: Why People Do Not Accept Evolution xiii species,” he admitted, noting that “the self-assertion of the individual” is t ...

xiv Foreword: Why People Do Not Accept Evolution “creationist” views that “living things have existed in their present form sinc ...

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever ...

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Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee. —Job 12: Many people find the topic of evolution and religion troubling and confusin ...

xviii To the Reader: Is Evolution a Threat to Your Religious Beliefs? Unlike the creationists, I have seen and studied many of t ...

It has been asserted by some writers who believe in the immutability of species that geol- ogy yields no linking forms. This ass ...

xx Prologue: Fossils and Evolution where elephants, horses, and rhinos came from; and how the first backboned animals evolved. W ...