Evolution: The Story of LifeEvolution 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. At the heart of the book is an astonishing, beautifully detailed panorama by renowned illustrator Peter Barrett that, in 100 double-page site reconstructions, offers a freeze-frame view of the communities--from microbes to humankind--that have lived on our planet's continents and in its oceans. These groundbreaking artworks, based on the most recent findings at some of the most famous fossil sites around the world, are paired with an authoritative and highly informative text written for a wide audience of readers. A landmark project, published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of his book On the Origin of Species, Evolution has been produced in association with the Natural History Museum in London, one of the most important centers of evolution research in the world.The volume includes an index of the hundreds of species shown in the illustrations, introductory articles on evolution, and many other features, making it a must-have reference for all homes, schools, and libraries. |
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... muds carried away any organisms unlucky enough to be living in the vicinity at the time . When the avalanche eventually halted downslope , the creatures entombed in the mud died from lack of oxygen . Luckily for paleontologists , this ...
... muds carried away any organisms unlucky enough to be living in the vicinity at the time . When the avalanche eventually halted downslope , the creatures entombed in the mud died from lack of oxygen . Luckily for paleontologists , this ...
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... muds with carbonate nodules Status : last extensively collected in the 1980s Preservation : flattened in shales and three - dimensional in nodules , with some soft tissue preservation Earth : c.163 MA Voulte - sur - Rhône Fossil site ...
... muds with carbonate nodules Status : last extensively collected in the 1980s Preservation : flattened in shales and three - dimensional in nodules , with some soft tissue preservation Earth : c.163 MA Voulte - sur - Rhône Fossil site ...
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... muds of Riversleigh provide a window onto an array of unique late Oligocene and early Miocene mammals . The largest of these are abundant hippo - like plant eaters ( Neohelos ) quite unlike anything alive today , whose presence ...
... muds of Riversleigh provide a window onto an array of unique late Oligocene and early Miocene mammals . The largest of these are abundant hippo - like plant eaters ( Neohelos ) quite unlike anything alive today , whose presence ...
Contents
FOREWORD | 8 |
INTRODUCTION 10 WHAT IS EVOLUTION? | 10 |
PUTTING LIFE IN ORDER | 12 |
Copyright | |
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Actinopterygii adapted Afrotheria ancestor Angiospermae animals aquatic Archosauria archosaurs arthropods Australia Basin Biota bipedal birds body bones bony Boreoeutheria Carboniferous carnivorous cave characterized Chelicerata Chondrichthyes Climate Common organisms Coniferopsida cynodonts Deposits developed Devonian diapsid dinosaurs diverse Early Cretaceous Earth Ediacara Eocene Epoch Euarchontoglires evolution evolutionary evolved excavated Extant fish forms fossil record extends Fossil site today freshwater FURTHER READING Gymnospermopsida Hexapoda hominid Homo Ice Age insects known lake Late Cretaceous Late Triassic Latitude Laurasiatheria Lepidosauria limbs limestone Lissamphibia living species Mammalia mammals marine Marsupialia marsupials Mesozoic million years ago modern Mollusca muds Museum Neognathae Original environment Ornithischia Paleocene paleontologists Permian placental mammals plant-eating plants predators preserved primitive quarries range record extends back reptiles Reptilia river Sarcopterygii Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sea level sediments shells skeletons skull soft tissues SPECIES LIST strata structure surviving synapsids tail teeth Temnospondyli terrestrial tetrapods Theropoda trilobites tropical vertebrates WEBSITES