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    <title>ptarmigan's dilemma</title>
    <subTitle>an exploration into how life organizes and supports itself</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Theberge, John B.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Theberge, Mary T.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>McClelland &amp; Stewart</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2010</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>401 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>The authors examine what the mechanisms of evolution are and how they work. With examples from the very latest discoveries in genetics and ones they have made in their own field work, "The Ptarmigan's Dilemma" "is a ground-breaking explanation of evolution for non-scientists--and a look at the rich diversity of life on Earth that's under threat today.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">John Theberge and Mary Theberge</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Evolution (Biology)</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Ecology</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Life (Biology)</topic>
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    <topic>Évolution (Biologie)</topic>
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  <subject authority="rvm">
    <topic>Écologie</topic>
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  <subject authority="rvm">
    <topic>Vie (Biologie)</topic>
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  <subject authority="">
    <topic>Evolutionaire biologie</topic>
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  <subject authority="">
    <topic>Ecosystemen</topic>
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  <subject authority="">
    <topic>Adaptatie (fysiologie, biologie)</topic>
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  <subject authority="">
    <topic>Populatiedynamica</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">576.8 THE-P</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780771085185</identifier>
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