The Book of LifePresenting the compelling story of life on earth, this book brings together the latest findings in evolutionary science. The drawings include reconstructions of creatures long extinct, seen in their own habitat. The contributors include Peter Andrews, a leading palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum; Michael Benton, a leading expert on mammal evolution; Christopher Stringer, an expert on mammal evolution and Jack Sepkoski, who teaches and researches early life forms at Chicago. |
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Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of the Life on Earth Stephen Jay Gould No preview available - 2001 |
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adapted Africa amphibians ancestors animals apes appear Archaeopteryx archosaurs arthropods Asia Australia Australopithecus bacteria birds body bones bony brain Cambrian carbon Carboniferous carnivores cells Cenozoic changes climate continents Cretaceous cynodonts developed Devonian dinosaurs diversity early Miocene Earth Eocene Europe evidence evolution evolutionary evolved families fauna fishes forest forms fossil fossil record geological giant groups habitat herbivores hominoids Homo erectus Homo habilis human ichthyosaurs insects jaws Jurassic known land larger late Cretaceous late Permian late Triassic later legs limbs living lower mammals marine marsupials mass extinctions Mesozoic million Miocene modern Neanderthals North America ocean Oligocene organisms oxygen Paleocene paleontologists Paleozoic Paranthropus patterns Permian placentals plants plates Pleistocene predators prey primates probably pterosaurs region reptiles rhinos rocks sauropods savanna sediments shells skeleton skull South species survive tail teeth tetrapods theropods trees tropical types ungulates vertebrates woodland