Evolution - What the Fossils Say and Why It MattersPevná vazba
Evolution - What the Fossils Say and Why It MattersPevná vazba Donald R. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book's widespread adoption in courses…
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Evolution - What the Fossils Say and Why It MattersPevná vazba
Donald R. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book's widespread adoption in courses that teach the nature and value of fossil evidence. Prothero's Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the the fossil record.
It includes extensive coverage of the primordial soup, invertebrate transitions, the development of the backbone, the reign of the dinosaurs, and the transformation from chimpanzee to human. Evolution tackles flood geology, rock dating, neo-Darwinism, and macroevolution. The book details the many "missing links," including some of the most recent discoveries, that flesh out the fossil timeline and the evolutionary process.
In this second edition, Prothero describes new transitional fossils from various periods, vividly depicting such bizarre creatures as the Odontochelys, or the "turtle on the half shell," fossil snakes with legs, and the "Frogamander," a new example of amphibian transition.