The Gospel of LUCA. In Search of the Common Ancestor of All Living Things
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The Gospel of LUCA. In Search of the Common Ancestor of All Living Things
9.99 €
The book "The Gospel of LUCA" tells about the animal world and the human race. Only LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) is not an apostle, but our common ancestor, and in order to understand what kind of creature this is, the reader, together with the author of the book, biologist Maxim Vinarsky, will travel a path of more than 4 billion years.
He will get acquainted with the history of the origin and evolution of multicellular animals. He will find out that we, people, are just one of many branches of the great Tree of Life, and the species Homo sapiens was formed in accordance with the laws common to the evolution of all living things. He will understand how biologists identify family ties between animals and restore the paths of their evolution. He will learn about the lives and scientific discoveries of scientists - those who came to the idea of the evolutionary relationship of all organisms on Earth and guessed how this relationship can be determined.
You will learn:
- about a microscopic creature that no one has ever seen and will never see, but which was the common ancestor of all living creatures on Earth;
- about why dinosaurs cannot be considered extinct and why it is wrong to say that man descended from apes;
- about flies whose legs grow on their heads, about toothy pigeons and strange fish with teeth in the form of a circular saw;
- about the fact that each of us has not one mouth, but two, and also about why no one guesses about it;
- about where and when Adam and Eve lived, and about why they never saw each other.
The book is addressed to all inquisitive readers who want to learn more about the origin of life, the animal world and man and who are not afraid of the words "chromosome", "allele" and symbiosis.
For anyone who wants to learn about the latest advances in evolutionary biology, zoology, and paleontology, and at the same time learn how scientists can look into the past and reconstruct events of days gone by.
He will get acquainted with the history of the origin and evolution of multicellular animals. He will find out that we, people, are just one of many branches of the great Tree of Life, and the species Homo sapiens was formed in accordance with the laws common to the evolution of all living things. He will understand how biologists identify family ties between animals and restore the paths of their evolution. He will learn about the lives and scientific discoveries of scientists - those who came to the idea of the evolutionary relationship of all organisms on Earth and guessed how this relationship can be determined.
You will learn:
- about a microscopic creature that no one has ever seen and will never see, but which was the common ancestor of all living creatures on Earth;
- about why dinosaurs cannot be considered extinct and why it is wrong to say that man descended from apes;
- about flies whose legs grow on their heads, about toothy pigeons and strange fish with teeth in the form of a circular saw;
- about the fact that each of us has not one mouth, but two, and also about why no one guesses about it;
- about where and when Adam and Eve lived, and about why they never saw each other.
The book is addressed to all inquisitive readers who want to learn more about the origin of life, the animal world and man and who are not afraid of the words "chromosome", "allele" and symbiosis.
For anyone who wants to learn about the latest advances in evolutionary biology, zoology, and paleontology, and at the same time learn how scientists can look into the past and reconstruct events of days gone by.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Alpina. Popular Science