Modern Humans pdf

Rebecca Stefoff has devoted her career to writing nonfiction books for young readers. Her publications include histories, literary biographies, an encyclopedia of maps, and numerous books on science and environmental issues. She has also adapted a number of landmark works in history and science, include Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Jared Diamond's The Third Chimpanzee, Charles C. Mann's bestselling 1493, Jill Jonnes's Eiffel's Tower, and Ronald Takaki's A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America.

Modern Humans pdf by Rebecca Stefoff

Modern Humans (Humans: An Evolutionary History)

It was the completion of a scientific venture as momentous as the race to split the atom or the mission to land on the Moon. The adventure had begun in an English laboratory, where a team of researchers studied life at the level of individual cells. James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin made scientific history in 1953 when they discovered the structure of DNA, the material inside each cell that is the blueprint for every species of plant and animal.That discovery launched a revolution in genetics, the scien- tific exploration of how DNA carries information from one generation to the next and gives life its form.