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Reviewed on May 1, 2024 | Science & Technology
Many people were taught the fundamentals of the evolutionary tree of life: organisms, through mutation and adaptive survival, diverge to create new species, and genetic traits are passed from parents to offspring. But Mindell's (senior researcher, Univ. of California's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology; author of The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life and coeditor of The Theory of Evolution) book shows that this concept applies mainly to animals and doesn't quite capture th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More