List of figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Darwinian Cosmos 2. The Development of a Theory 3. The Maturation of a Theory 4. Expanding the Modern Synthesis 5. Human Evolution 6. Origins, the Expanion of Life and the Persistance of Disease 7. Humankind's Future: An Evolutionary Perspective. Glossary. Bibliography
Biography
Sherrie Lyons is Assistant Professor at the Center for Distance Learning of Empire State College, State University of New York. She is author of Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls: Science at the Margins in the Victorian Age and Thomas Henry Huxley: The Evolution of a Scientist.
‘Lyons (SUNY Empire State College) has written a concise, well-presented primer on the evolution of the original theory of evolution... The last two chapters, offer insightful and enlightened treatments of evolution on a dynamic continuum.’- J. N. Muzio, CUNY Kingsborough Community College, Choice Review February 2012
