Evolution is the process that created the terrible teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex and the complex human brain, clever enough to understand the workings of nature. Young readers will learn how a British naturalist named Charles Darwin studied nature and developed his now-famous concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest. And how modern-day science has added to our understanding of the theory of evolution. Can something as complex and wondrous as the natural world be explained by a simple theory? The answer is yes, and now Evolution explains how in a way that makes it easy to understand.
This book is aimed at children at US 3rd grade-8th grade.
This book has been graded for interest at 8-13 years.
There are 56 pages in this book. This book was published in 2014 by Kids Can Press .
Daniel Loxton is a writer and illustrator who specializes in science and critical thinking publications - especially for young readers. He is the editor of Junior Skeptic, the children's science section of Skeptic magazine.
This book contains the following story:
On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin proposed that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. Individual members of populations vary, but it is the characteristics of the most successful in any population that are disproportionately passed onto the next generation. Darwin provided evidence that diversity of life resulted from this inheritance of certain characteristics by the fittest through a branching pattern of evolution. He provided evidence for his theory, much of which was collected on his Beagle expedition. The Origin of the Species was published on 24 November 1859.
... this title will appeal to researchers.--School Library Journal
What could have been a dreary march through the fossil records is kept light and accessible by Loxton's sense of humor and breezy prose style.--Quill & Quire
Beautifully illustrated and elegantly written, any child interested in the story of life will be fascinated by it.--Wired Magazine
