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Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
576 pages : color illustrations and maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Evolution: The Whole Story provides an in-depth account of evolution, one of the ultimate keystone theories in modern science. Ten experts survey how each of Earth's major groups of living things diversified and evolved through time. Using visual features that make the story comprehensible, the book gives readers, even those with no previous knowledge of the topic, a clear understanding of evolution and how it brought us to the present day.
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to evolution, using examples from different species to show how replication, variation, and selection are the three factors needed for evolution, but emphasizing that the outcome of the process is not always predictable.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
44 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the style of WHEN BUGS WERE BIG and WHEN FISH GOT FEET this book discusses all the exciting developments of the Triassic Age, from the split of Pangaea into Gondwanaland and Laurasia, to the first appearance of the dinosaurs. There were pterosaurs (flying reptiles), the first flowering plants, humongous sea creatures, early turtles, and the first coral reefs. Early mammals also appeared in the Triassic, and there were several dramatic extinction...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
415 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the retitled paperback edition of his book What on Earth Evolved?, Christopher Lloyd leads us on an extraordinary journey, from the birth of life to the present day, as he explains, in a jargon-free way, the phenomenon we call "life on Earth." Lloyd starts with the Earth "before humans, " when loose strands of genetic code swarmed over the planet, and moves on to explore the creatures that evolved in the murky deep and crept up on the shore to...
12) Future evolution
Author
Publisher
Times Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
xv, 190 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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