Deep Time: Cladistics, the Revolution in Evolution - Softcover

Gee, Henry

 
9781857029871: Deep Time: Cladistics, the Revolution in Evolution
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1857029879 ISBN 13: 9781857029871
Verlag: Fourth Estate Ltd, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

For a long time, popular scientists have told us that by looking at a fossilised bone we could tell whether it belonged to our ancestors or not. This is not true. In Deep Time, Henry Gee, introduces for the first time in the popular science market a new way of thinking that has revolutionised the way that scientists are approaching the past - Cladistics. Cladistics ignores story-telling and authority and proposes a method based on shared characteristics, rather than ancestry and descent. As a result of using this new method Henry Gee is able to show us the wealth of new ideas that is radically altering our notions of the past: Dinosaurs with feathers; why fish developed fingers; what it means to be human.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Henry Gee is the chief science writer and assistant editor of Nature. He holds a PhD from Cambridge in Zoology and has previously been Regent's Professor at UCLA. He also contributes to Le Monde, El Pais, Die Zeit and has previously written Before the Backbone: Views on the Origin of the Vertebrates (1996).

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Verlag
Fourth Estate Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1857029879
ISBN 13 
9781857029871
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Anzahl der Seiten
272
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