Douglas J. Emlen - Evolution: Making Sense of Life

Third Edition

Making Sense of Life

• Douglas J. Emlen | Carl Zimmer

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ISBN 978-1-319-23093-7 (epub)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019937273

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To Kerry, Cory, and Nicole, the center of my beautiful world.D. J. E.

To Grace, who awakens me to the life around us, and to

Charlotte and Veronica, who have grown up amid my books.C. W. Z.

Text reads: The latest research in evolutionary biology. Douglas Emlen and Carl Zimmer have painstakingly reviewed the latest research in evolution and incorporated these updates in the text to ensure students see evolution for the dynamic and exciting discipline it is.

Updates include the following:

Formation of Earth and early fossil record of life.

Revised approach to coalescence.

Promiscuous proteins.

Looking at menopause by studying whales.

Revisiting the Cambrian explosion.

New fossils of hominins.

Evolutionary history of oxytocin and vasopressin.

Genomic sequencing in H I V patients.

Antagonistic pleiotropy and Alzheimers Disease plus Human Evolution.

About 40,000 years ago, someone entered a cave on the island of Borneo and drew a portrait of a thick-bodied, spindly legged animal. In 2015, a team of researchers climbed jungle-covered mountains to the same cave and discovered the image. When the researchers dated it, they realized that it was the oldest known example of figurative art ever made by humansa profoundly important milestone in the history of our species. It indicates that by 40,000 years ago our ancestors had gained the ability to think symbolicallya capacity not found in other species ().

Researchers are uncovering such extraordinary chapters in the history of life at an astonishing pace. This ongoing work made creating the Third Edition of