Once we all had gills : growing up evolutionist in an evolving world / Rudolf A. Raff.

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2012], ©2012.

xv, 329 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-314) and index.

pt. 1. Becoming a naturalist. Space-time ; Layers of the past ; An age of dinosaurs ; A school a minute ; In the natural world ; Transformations ; Going south ; Learning to love the bomb ; On the road to Chiapas ; The masked messenger -- pt. 2. Finding evolution, founding evo-devo. Evolution as science ; Dining with Darwin ; Life with sea urchins ; Embryos evolving ; Evolution in the Tasman Sea ; An alternate present ; Biology meets fossils -- pt. 3. Strange new world. Darwin's day in court ; Creationist makeovers ; Evolution matters.