Fossils At a Glance - Softcover

Milsom, Clare; Rigby, Susan

 
9780632060474: Fossils At a Glance
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0632060476 ISBN 13: 9780632060474
Verlag: Wiley & Sons, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Life on Earth has been evolving and interacting with the surface and atmosphere for almost four billion years. Fossils provide a powerful tool in the study of the Earth and its history. They also provide important data for evolutionary studies and contribute to our understanding of the extinction of organisms and the origins of modern biodiversity.


  • Introduces the study of fossils in a simple and straightforward manner.
  • Short chapters introduce the main topics in the current study of fossils.
  • The most important fossil groups are discussed, from microfossils through
  • invertebrates to vertebrates and plants, followed by a brief narrative of life on earth.
  • Diagrams are central to the book and allow the reader to see most of the important data 'at a glance'.
  • Each topic covers two pages and provides a self-contained suite of information or a starting point for future study.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Clare Milsom is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Biological and Earth Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She has a PhD from Liverpool University and her main research interests are in exceptionally preserved crinoids, functional morphology, and evolution.


Sue Rigby is Director of Teaching in the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK. She has a PhD from Cambridge and concentrates her research on the evolution of plankton and the functional morphology of graptolites.


Both authors enjoy teaching and have substantial experience in presenting paleontology to earth science and biology students.

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Fossils provide a powerful tool for the study of the nearly 4-billion-year history of life, and its role in the evolution of Earth systems. Fossils also provide important data for evolutionary studies, and contribute to our understanding of the extinction of organisms and the origins of modern biodiversity.


Fossils At A Glance is written for students taking an introductory level course in paleontology. Short chapters introduce the main topics in the modern study of fossils. The most important fossil groups are discussed, from microfossils through invertebrates to vertebrates and plants, followed by a brief narrative of life on Earth.

Diagrams are central to the book and allow the reader to see most of the important data at a glance . Each topic covers two pages and provides a self-contained suite of information or a starting point for future study.

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Verlag
Wiley & Sons
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0632060476
ISBN 13 
9780632060474
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
194
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