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9780500291733: Evolution: The Whole Story
Softcover
ISBN 10: 050029173X ISBN 13: 9780500291733
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015

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Evolution: The Whole Story contains everything you need to know about the development and survival of life on Earth. Each chapter of this accessible and lavishly illustrated book takes a major living group and presents thematic essays discussing the evolution of particular subgroups as they appeared on Earth with reference to detailed comparative anatomy, evolutionary legacies, and the breakthrough theories of eminent scientists. Accompanying the essays are amazing photographic features that investigate the characteristics of individual organisms in detail: in some, remarkable fossils, assembled skeletons, and lifelike reconstructions are presented and analyzed; while in others, living species are depicted and compared in detail to their direct ancestors, creatures that may have lived millions of years ago.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Steve Parker is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. He has written more than 200 books and contributed to, or acted as consultant for, another 100 or so titles. Many of these books reflect Steve's passion for animals, plants, and life sciences such as ecology and ethology.

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Evolution: The Whole Story presents a thorough survey of how each of the major groups of living things - earliest life, plants, invertebrates, fish and amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals - evolved through time. Each chapter takes a major living group and presents thematic essays discussing the evolution of particular subgroups as they appeared on Earth with reference to detailed comparative anatomy, evolutionary legacies and the breakthrough theories of eminent scientists. The book covers the giant sea-spiders that prowled the shallow seas until 250 million years ago; the sharks that have changed little over 400 million years; the giant carnivorous dinosaurs that roamed North America in the Cretaceous Period; the perching birds, ancestors of modern-day garden birds; the evolutionary story of the horse, and more. Accompanying the essays are amazing photographic features that investigate the characteristics of individual organisms in detail. Our understanding of evolution has a profound effect on our underlying comprehension of nature - from our own human heritage to the way we believe climate change will affect tomorrow's world. Evolutionary theorists, intrepid fossil-hunters, paleontologists, paleoecologists, molecular biologists, geneticists, climatologists - and the occasional lucky amateur - have all contributed to unravelling this most complex and challenging subject. Evolution: The Whole Story contains everything we need to know about the development and survival of life on Earth.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
050029173X
ISBN 13 
9780500291733
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
576
Herausgeber
Parker Steve
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