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The science of evolution
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The science of evolution

Acknowledgements

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course:

The material acknowledged below is contained in 99% Ape How Evolution Adds Up, edited by Jonathan Silvertown. Published by Natural History Museum in association with The Open University (2008). Copyright © Text: The Open University. Copyright © Design and layout: The Natural History Museum. This book forms part of the Open University course S170 Darwin and evolution.

This course is based on a chapter written by Peter Skelton. The content in Section 5 was provided by Gary Slapper.

Course image: Roberto Baca [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence.

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