Facts and Arguments for Darwin (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Crustaceans and Common Descent explores how growth, life cycles, and parasitism in crustaceans challenge and illuminate Darwin’s ideas about evolution.

This book uses detailed observations to show how development patterns support a common ancestry among crustaceans and related groups. The author argues that studying the development of various crustacean groups can reveal how complex life histories evolved. It examines how embryos, larval stages, and parasitic life cycles relate to broader questions about species change over time. This edition presents a careful, evidence-based look at how these organisms grow, transform, and interact with their environments, all through a Darwinian lens.

• How development informs evolutionary relationships among crustaceans
• Examples of parasitism and life-cycle changes that shed light on descent
• Discussion of classification and the factors that shape it over deep time
• Insight into the scientific process of testing evolutionary theories with concrete data

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