Sean B. Carroll's Into the Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution brings the science of evolution to biology students at any level, regardless of their college major or career path. Each of the nine stories in this brief reader chronicles the dramatic adventures of an influential zoologist, geologist, paleontologist, or geneticist on their path to some of the most important discoveries that have shaped our understanding of how life has evolved.
Into The Jungle features these explorers:
Charles Darwin (around the world voyage, The Origin of Species, Chapter 1)
Alfred Wallace (voyages to Amazon and Indonesia, The Wallace Line, Chapter 2)
Henry Walter Bates (mimicry as evidence of natural selection, Chapter 3)
Eugene Dubois (the "missing link" ape-man in Java, Chapter 4)
Roy Chapman Andrews (dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert, Chapter 5)
Walter and Luis Alvarez (K-T asteroid extinction theory, Chapter 6)
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (coelacanth in South Africa, Chapter 7)
Tony Allison (link between sickle cell and malaria resistance in Africa, Chapter 8)
Ditlef Rustad and Arthur DeVries (loss of red blood cells and evolution of antifreeze in Antarctic fish, Chapter 9)
A Companion Website at www.aw-bc.com/carroll includes electronic files of original journal articles reporting key discoveries described in the book, questions to aid the analysis and discussion of these articles, additional photos, hyperlinks to websites of additional sources, and PowerPoint® lecture slides.
Preface
I. INTO THE JUNGLE
1. Reverend Darwin’s Detour
2. Drawing a Line between Monkeys and Kangaroos
3. Life Imitates Life
II. ON THE TRAIL OF ANCIENT HUMANS
4. Java Man
5. Where the Dragon Laid Her Eggs
III. ALWAYS EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
6. The Day the Mesozoic Died
7. Miss Latimer’s Extraordinary Fish
IV. EVOLUTION IN ACTION
8. A Sickle-Cell Safari
9. In Cold Blood: The Tale of the Icefish
General Review and Discussion
Sources and Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index
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