William Heinemann, London Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2001 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's full blue clothes, no dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 384 pages
many colour illustrations and few in black and white 1st Translation in English Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Introduction, Foreword, xx, Text, 364 pages - 1. Slow victory, Darwin and the rise of Darwinism : Darwin and the Beagle - Like confessing a murder : The origin of Origin of Species - Deep time discovered : Putting dates to the history of life - Witnessing change : Genes, natural selection, and evolution in action - 2. Creation and destruction : Rooting the tree of life : From life's dawn to the age of microbes - The accidental tool kit : Chance and constraints in animal evolution - Extinction : How life ends and begins again - 3. Evolution's dance : Coevolution : Weaving the web of life - Doctor Darwin : Disease in the age of the evolutionary medicine - Passion's logic : The evolution of sex - 4. Humanity's place in evolution and evolution's place in humanity : The Gossiping ape : The social roots of human evolution - Modern life, 50.000 B.C. : The dawn of us - What about God ? - Further reading, index no dust-jacket, else fine copy, no markings