The Playing Animal
Glenn Harrison and Don Ross (Profile Books)
Insights into animal evolution used to come back from finding out a creature’s evolutionary relationships to its closest kinfolk. To lampoon this barely: we as soon as noticed people as a sort of chimp. Our views widened and, wanting throughout ecosystems, we started to see what drives animals who share the identical setting in the direction of related survival options. That is convergent evolution – the method by which, say, in case you are a vertebrate residing in an aqueous medium, you might be virtually definitely going to finish up wanting…