Evolution
The Story of Life
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
Format: Book
Description: 367 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm
"Evolution" recreates the 3.5 billion-year story of life on Earth in stunning detail through vivid full-color illustrations and graphics, the latest scientific information, and hundreds of photographs--a beautifully detailed panorama of communities from microbes to humankind that have lived on the planet's continents and in its oceans.
Contents:
Introduction. What is evolution? ; Putting life in order -- How to use this book -- The science of evolution. Darwin ; Origin and beyond ; Time and life ; The pattern of life ; What are fossils? ; The variety of fossils ; Reconstructing the past ; Evolution today -- The story of evolution : one hundred illustrated site reconstructions -- The trees of life -- Site gazetteer -- Species listing.
ISBN:
0520255119
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SCIENCE Evolution Pal | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
SCIENCE Evolution Pal | Edgewood | Nonfiction | In |
Twenty p. on folded leaves, unfold to 30 x 50 cm.
Published in association with the Natural History Museum (London) to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of his On the origin of species.
Includes index.
Published in association with the Natural History Museum (London) to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of his On the origin of species.
Includes index.