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Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Free Resources Sign in to download PDF book and chapters PDF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8 Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science Other Related Titles Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, Second Edition (1999) National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 35   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Credits Front cover and title page: Hurricane Andrew over the Gulf of Mexico, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-7, August 1992, NOAA. Back cover: Map of the world by Isidore of Seville [A.D. 560-636], redrawn and published in 1898 in Mappaemundi: Die altesten Weltkarten, a six-volume work compiled by Konrad Miller. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. page iv: Entrance to National Academy of Sciences building, Carol M. Highsmith, photographer. page v: Marble seal of the National Academy of Sciences, David Patterson, photographer. page vi: Detail, © Marty Stouffer, 1991/PNI. page x: Young stars, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA. page 3: background: © Ken Graham/PNI; insets: photograph of Edwin Hubble, National Academy of Sciences; Hubble Deep Field, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA. page 4: Young stellar disks in infrared, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA. page 6: left: DNA, Dr. A. Lesk, Laboratory of Molecular Biology/Science Photo Library; right: RNA, © Ken Eward/Science Source, Photo Researchers, Inc. page 9: Charles Darwin, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. page 9: Galápagos Islands, © Archive Photos, 1994/PNI. page 11: Darwin's finches. Drawing by K. Thalia Grant. From The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner. © 1994 by Jonathan Weiner. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. page 12: Paria River, Utah. Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument, © Tom Till. pages 12-13: Illustration of layers of sedimentary rock, Joyce Pendola, courtesy Natural History. page 14: Illustration by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration, adapted from Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View by Lewin, © Scientific American Library. Used with permission by W.H. Freeman and Company. page 16: top, © Ron Sanford, 1994/PNI; bottom left, © Marty Stouffer, 1991/PNI; bottom right, © Erwin Bauer, Peggy Bauer, 1990/PNI. page 18: Myoglobin, © Irvine Gels. page 19: Cytochrome c. Illustration by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration, adapted from the Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol. I, 37, 1971. pages 20-21: Drawings of mammalian land ancestor and Balaenoptera, by N. Haver. Drawings of Ambulocetus and Rodhocetus, by N. Haver, © Sinauer Associates. page 22: Illustration adapted from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Reprinted with permission of Cambridge University Press. page 24: Drawings by Darwen Hennings. From Biology: Concepts and Applications, 1st edition, by C. Starr. © 1991. Reprinted with permission of Brooks/Cole Publishing. page 36: Detail, Paria River, Utah. Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument, © Tom Till. Page 35 Front Matter (R1-R10) Introduction (1-2) The Origin of the Universe, Earth, and Life (3-8) Evidence Supporting Biological Evolution (9-22) Human Evolution (23-24) Conclusion (25-26) Appendix: Frequently Asked Questions (27-30) Recommended Readings (31-32) Reviewers (33-33) NAS Council (34-34) Credits (35-36)

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Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, Second Edition Credits Front cover and title page: Hurricane Andrew over the Gulf of Mexico, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-7, August 1992, NOAA. Back cover: Map of the world by Isidore of Seville [A.D. 560-636], redrawn and published in 1898 in Mappaemundi: Die altesten Weltkarten, a six-volume work compiled by Konrad Miller. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. page iv: Entrance to National Academy of Sciences building, Carol M. Highsmith, photographer. page v: Marble seal of the National Academy of Sciences, David Patterson, photographer. page vi: Detail, © Marty Stouffer, 1991/PNI. page x: Young stars, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA. page 3: background: © Ken Graham/PNI; insets: photograph of Edwin Hubble, National Academy of Sciences; Hubble Deep Field, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA. page 4: Young stellar disks in infrared, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA. page 6: left: DNA, Dr. A. Lesk, Laboratory of Molecular Biology/Science Photo Library; right: RNA, © Ken Eward/Science Source, Photo Researchers, Inc. page 9: Charles Darwin, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. page 9: Galápagos Islands, © Archive Photos, 1994/PNI. page 11: Darwin's finches. Drawing by K. Thalia Grant. From The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner. © 1994 by Jonathan Weiner. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. page 12: Paria River, Utah. Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument, © Tom Till. pages 12-13: Illustration of layers of sedimentary rock, Joyce Pendola, courtesy Natural History. page 14: Illustration by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration, adapted from Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View by Lewin, © Scientific American Library. Used with permission by W.H. Freeman and Company. page 16: top, © Ron Sanford, 1994/PNI; bottom left, © Marty Stouffer, 1991/PNI; bottom right, © Erwin Bauer, Peggy Bauer, 1990/PNI. page 18: Myoglobin, © Irvine Gels. page 19: Cytochrome c. Illustration by Leigh Coriale Design and Illustration, adapted from the Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol. I, 37, 1971. pages 20-21: Drawings of mammalian land ancestor and Balaenoptera, by N. Haver. Drawings of Ambulocetus and Rodhocetus, by N. Haver, © Sinauer Associates. page 22: Illustration adapted from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Reprinted with permission of Cambridge University Press. page 24: Drawings by Darwen Hennings. From Biology: Concepts and Applications, 1st edition, by C. Starr. © 1991. Reprinted with permission of Brooks/Cole Publishing. page 36: Detail, Paria River, Utah. Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument, © Tom Till.

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