In the Blink of an Eye: The Cause of the Most Dramatic Event in the History of Life - Couverture souple
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Aims to explain the most dramatic event in the history of life - the Cambrian Explosion, or 'Big Bang' of evolution. Andrew Parker, a Research Fellow at Oxford University, explores the cause, and describes the point at which animals, with eyes open for literally the first time, began hunting each other.
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Between 543 and 538 million years ago, something remarkable happened. After hundreds of millions of years of gradual and painstaking evolution, suddenly the process exploded into life. For the first time animals evolved hard external parts. For the first time there was evidence of active predation, with both hunters and hunted rapidly developing both armaments and defences. And in this short space of time -- the blink of an eye, in geological terms -- the number of different classifications of animals, or phyla, mushroomed from three to thirty-eight, the number we still have today.
The 'when' and the 'what' of this extraordinary event, known as the 'Cambrian Explosion', have been known for some years and were made famous in Stephen Jay Gould's bestselling book WONDERFUL LIFE. What has until now been speculation is the 'why'. Andrew Parker's astounding explanation, which is becoming increasingly influential and accepted, is fully explored and described in this groundbreaking book. A scientific detective story which encompasses disciplines as diverse as biology, history, geology and art, IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE is destined to become a popular-science classic.
Biographie de l'auteur
Andrew Parker was born in 1967. After completing his Ph.D. in Marine Biology he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Australia, Poland and the United States. He is currently a Royal Society Research Fellow in the Department of Zoology at Oxford University. This is his first book.
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In the Blink of an Eye: The Cause of the Most Dramatic Event in the History of Life
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Simon & Schuster, 2003
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