Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
- ISBN-10
- 0399184929
- ISBN-13
- 9780399184925
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Jonathan B. Losos
Description
A Harvard museum curator draws on the latest breakthroughs in evolutionary biology to examine how tiny, random convergences, from mutations to butterfly sneezes, have triggered remarkable evolutionary changes.
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