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24) A new history of life: the radical new discoveries about the origins and evolution of life on earth
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The history of life on Earth is, in some form or another, known to us all-- or so we think. [This book] offers a provocative new account, based on the latest scientific research, of how modern lifeforms evolved"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An exciting and dramatic story about how life began and developed on Planet Earth.
"The authors explain how the first living cell was created, and how the cells multiply and create jellyfish and worms, and then fish with bendy necks, which drag themselves out of the water into swampy forests. They tell the story of the biggest creatures that have ever walked on land-- the dinosaurs. Long after that, hairy creatures who have babies, not eggs, take...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The author of Your Inner Fish, now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our presence on this planet is an accident or inevitable. The great transformations in the history of life brought about whole scale shifts in how animals live and how their bodies are organized: the evolution of fish to land-living creature, the origin of birds, the beginnings...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
Ã2002
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
This resource provides an in-depth look at evolutionary biology through essential concepts and theories, present methods, models and findings, and discussions on the history of the field and current controversies.
31) Evolution
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
56 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This is a science text like no other. Although Harman (professor of the History of Science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel) follows a standard progression, from the creation of universe and planet Earth through the emergence of life up to modern humans, he does so quickly via a series of 15 vignettes that are more poetry than pedagogy. Each short chapter covers one phase of this history with the majority of text devoted to the development of life...
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