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Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Every fossil tells a story. Prothero recounts the adventures behind the discovery of twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils and explains their significance within the larger fossil record, creating a riveting history of life on our planet.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A personal insight, from the world's favourite naturalist, into Darwin's theory of evolution, exploring why it is more important now than ever before. Beautifully shot, this is the start of a series of celebrations of the man behind the theory that changed the world's thinking. But more than that, this is a labor of love for a man who has been at the forefront of natural history programming for decades.
68) Prehistoric life
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Explores the origins of life on Earth, by studying the fossils of the past, from the early plants and animals, through the age of dinosaurs, and the coming of humans.
69) Evolution
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 29 cm + 1 clip art CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).
Language
English
Description
Text about and photography of experiments, animals, plants, bones, and fossils reveal the ideas and discoveries that have changed our understanding of the natural world and how life began.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"We think of medical science and doctors as focused on treating conditions--whether it's a cough or an aching back. But the sicknesses and complaints that cause us to seek medical attention actually have deeper origins than the superficial germs and behaviors we regularly fault ... Jeremy Taylor [argues that] we can trace the roots of many medical conditions through our evolutionary history, revealing what has made us susceptible to certain illnesses...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sparked by a controversial debate in February 2014, Bill Nye has set off on an energetic campaign to spread awareness of evolution and the powerful way it shapes our lives. In Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation, he explains why race does not really exist; evaluates the true promise and peril of genetically modified food; reveals how new species are born, in a dog kennel and in a London subway; takes a stroll through 4.5 billion years...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xii, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Despite our seemingly endless fascination with sex and parenting, the origins of our reproductive lives remain a mystery. Why are a quarter of a billion sperm cells needed to fertilize one egg? Are women really fertile for only a few days each month? How long should women breast-feed? In [this book], primatologist Robert Martin draws on forty years of research to locate the origins of everything from sex cells to baby care, and to reveal what's really...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Harvard museum curator draws on the latest breakthroughs in evolutionary biology to examine how tiny, random convergences, from mutations to butterfly sneezes, have triggered remarkable evolutionary changes.
Author
Publisher
Discovery Institute Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
[Revised edition].
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
More than thirty years after his book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985), biologist and intelligent-design proponent Michael Denton revisits his earlier thesis about the inability of Darwinian evolution to explain the history of life, and argues that there is a pervasive "non-adaptive order" in the biological world.
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
256 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Eldredge's groundbreaking work is now accepted as the definitive statement of how life as we know it evolved on Earth. This book chronicles how Eldredge made his discoveries and traces the history of life through the lenses of paleontology, geology, ecology, anthropology, biology, genetics, zoology, mammalogy, herpetology, entomology and botany. While rigorously accurate, the text is accessible, engaging and free of jargon.
Author
Language
English
Description
On December 27, 1831, the young naturalist Charles Darwin left Plymouth Harbor aboard the HMS Beagle. For the next five years, he conducted research on plants and animals from around the globe, amassing a body of evidence that would culminate in one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind-the theory of evolution. Darwin presented his stunning insights in a landmark book that forever altered the way human beings view themselves and the...
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