Origin, Evolution and Diversity of Life

Submitted by pradipta pramanik on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 00:14

Origin, Evolution and Diversity of Life : Haldane and Oparin’s concept on origin of life. Modern concept of Natural selection, Biological Species concept.

Human evolution – An outline.

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