Evolution: The Whole Story - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 050029173X ISBN 13 : 9780500291733

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Evolution The Whole Story, 9780500291733

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Warrington, Cheshire in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 050029173X
• ISBN 13: 9780500291733
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 576
• Éditeur: Parker Steve
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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