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Gr 5–8—Pringle's exemplary title offers a carefully researched and clearly written history of the evolutionary process and real-time examples of evolutionary events. "Evolution is, simply, change over time." From floating continents and isolated islands to the formation of fossils, natural selection, and the deductions of Charles Darwin, the lucid text ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Pringle traces historical developments in the fields of geology and biology that led to Darwin's On the Origin of Species as well as the centuries of subsequent scientific discoveries that have further contributed to our understandings of changes in species over incredibly long periods of time. Pringle's straightforward explanations of such scientific concepts as natural selection, genetic mutations, and speciation are woven through the historical timeline, making ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Pringle traces scientific developments that led to Darwin's <i>On the Origin of Species</i> as well as subsequent discoveries that have contributed to understandin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More