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The Joy of Science An Examination of How Scientists Ask and Answer Questions Using the Story of Evolution as a Paradigm
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The Joy of Science [electronic resource] : An Examination of How Scientists Ask and Answer Questions Using the Story of Evolution as a Paradigm / by Richard A. Lockshin.
ISBN
9781402060991
Edition
1st ed. 2007.
Publication
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
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1 online resource (XI, 440 p.)
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Summary
Scientists have great passion. What could be more exhilarating than to go to work every day feeling as if you were once again a nine-year-old called up to he stage to help the magician with his trick? To be a researcher is to always be in the position of having the chance to see how the trick works. No wonder that many researchers feel that each new day is the most exciting day to be a scientist. It therefore is not surprising that scientists have such trouble communicating with non-scientists. It is difficult for the scientist to understand a life not focused on the desire to understand. But the differences are not that. Everyone wants to understand; that is one of the factors that make us human. The difference is more that scientists limit their definition of comprehension to specific rules of logic and evidence. These rules apply and are used in everyday life, but often with less rigor or restrictions on evidence.
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English
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November 14, 2019
Contents
Chapter 1: The Origin of the Earth and of Species of Animals and Plants as Seen Before the Enlightenment
Chapter 2: The Seashells on the Mountaintop
Chapter 3: Aristotle’s and Linnaeus’ Classifications of Living Creatures
Chapter 4: Natural Selection: the Second Half of Darwin’s Hypothesis
Chapter 5: Darwin’s Hypothesis
Chapter 6: The stuff of Inheritance: DNA, RNA, and Mutations
Chapter 7: The Story of our Planet
Chapter 8: Competition Among Species
Chapter 9:The Importance of Disease
Chapter 10: The Evolution of Humans.
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