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50 dramatic twists of evolution - Guillaume Lecointre - Éditions Quae

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50 dramatic twists of evolution - Guillaume Lecointre - Éditions Quae

50 dramatic twists of evolution

by Guillaume Lecointre (writer)

Collection: Hors Collection

june 2025

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Summary

Evolution, an old scholarly trick? Not at all! Quite the contrary, it's a fascinating and timely scientific subject.

Shattering discoveries are still being made, and have even punctuated every decade for almost three centuries. For example, new species (like the coelacanth), theoretical revolutions (such as neutralism), descriptions of breathtaking fossils (a dinosaur with surprising wings!), but also controversies (between Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier) and new interpretations (those of the outline of our continents).

Evolution thus manifests itself in many forms and also in different timeframes, ranging from millions of years of coexistence between several human species to the speed of a pandemic caused by a virus that evolves faster than health measures.

Wander through this book among 50 dramatic twists of evolution!

Table of contents

Foreword

A temperate rainforest at the South Pole

A feathered reptile: Archaeopteryx

Lungs and gills in one

A scientific theory for the transformation of species

This giant scrotum is... a dinosaur!

No, we don't suck at olfaction!

Dinosaurs didn't disappear overnight

Crocodiles of discord

Another biogeography

The discovery of a living coelacanth

Double reading at the London Linnaean Society

No more fish!

Fossil half-tortoises!

A new synthesis for evolution

The spinosaurus is a swimming dinosaur

Placenta is viral in origin

Neutralist theory of evolution

A fourth wing!

A new species of mosquito in the metro

Evolution by punctuated equilibria

The gene takes over

Parental care explains our big brains

Life is divided into three!

Genes for embryonic development

Family histories in whalefish

The origin of our fingers on the shelf

Monkeys carve stone tools!

Adaptation is not the only explanation!

Cetaceans are artiodactyls!

First discovery of feathers on non-avian dinosaurs

Frankenstein in drosophila

A (new) coelacanth is discovered alive

Put it all in the same species!

A legged snake!

Hagfish really have lost their vertebrae!

Turtles are diapsids!

Great apes know you're wrong

We're not that violent

The mammalian middle ear had five bones

Lightning evolution in lizards

The age of the human species suddenly increases by 50%!

A different kind of leg!

Why so many amino acids in our proteins?

The oldest fossil mushroom ages 500 Ma!

Embryonic leaflets are not what we thought

A new geospizal species in three generations

An educational coup de théâtre!

Pterosaurs had feathers (piliforms)!

A new human species discovered in the Philippines

The deeper you dig, the more you find!

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Features

Features

Language(s): French

Publisher: Éditions Quae

Edition: 1^st edition

Collection: Hors Collection

Published: 5 june 2025

Reference Book: 03006

Reference eBook [PDF]: 03006NUM

Reference eBook [ePub]: 03006EPB

EAN13 Book: 9782759240869

EAN13 eBook [PDF]: 9782759240876

EAN13 eBook [ePub]: 9782759240883

Interior: Black & white

Format (in mm) Book: 150 x 230

Pages count Book: 150

Pages count eBook [PDF]: 150

Weight (in grammes): 230

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