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Trilobite!: Eyewitness to Evolution - Hardcover

Fortey, Richard

 
9780002570121: Trilobite!: Eyewitness to Evolution
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0002570122 ISBN 13: 9780002570121
Verlag: GB Gardners Books, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Richard Fortey fell in love with trilobites when he held his first fossil and weighed up half a billion years' of history in his hands. He was fourteen. Trilobite! is an unashamedly trilobito-centric view of the world, unravelling the history of the exotic, crustacean-like animals which dominated the seas for three hundred million years. These arthropods witnessed continents move, mountain chains elevated and eroded; they survived ice ages and volcanic eruptions, evolving and adapting exquisitely to their environment. They watched through crystal eyes whilst life evolved. Their own evolution calibrated geological time itself.
Central to Fortey's book is the notion of science as a web of knowledge where the apparently peripheral can suddenly become pivotal. Trilobites have taken centre stage in scientific debates in unexpected ways. This astonishing book presents a fresh and unique picture of the geological past and evolutionary science which makes all who read it - scientist or not - understand the true wonder of scientific discovery.

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Richard Fortey is a senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum, London.

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Verlag
GB Gardners Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0002570122
ISBN 13 
9780002570121
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
269
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