| Description |
v, 225 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
The phenomenon of evolution. Evolution / Mayr ; Adaptation / Lewontin ; The evolution of multicellular plants and animals / Valentine -- Earliest traces of life. The evolution of the earliest cells / Schoff ; Pre-Cambrian animals / Glaessner ; The animals of the Burgess Shale / Conway, Morris and Whittington -- Interpreting fossils. The evolution of reefs / Newell ; Fossil behavior / Seilacher ; Micropaleontology / Ericson and Wollin ; Dinosaur Renaissance / Bakker -- Some major patterns in the history of life. Crises in the history of life / Newell ; Plate tectonics and the history of life in the oceans / Valentine and Moores ; Continental drift and evolution / Kurten -- Human evolution. The evolution of man / Washburn ; The Hominids of East Turkana / Walker and Leakey ; The Neanderthals / Trinkaus and Howells |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [217]-219 |
| Subject |
Evolution.
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Evolutionary paleobiology.
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Paleontology.
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| Author |
Laporte, Léo F.
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| LC no. |
81017401 |
| ISBN |
0716714027 (hard) |
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0716714035 (paperback) |
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