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History of life

Author: Richard Cowen
Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Science, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 3rd edView all editions and formats
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Covering the vertebrates, this book details animal life. It also covers the key processes that have shaped the Earth.

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Cowen
ISBN: 0632044446 9780632044443
OCLC Number: 41572551
Description: xv, 432 p. ill ; 29 cm.
Contents: The origin of life --
Earth's earliest life --
Sex and nuclei : eukaryotes --
The evolution of animals --
Life in a changing world --
Extinction --
The early vertebrates --
Leaving the water --
Amphibians and reptiles --
Reptiles and thermoregulation --
The triassic takeover --
Dinosaurs --
Warm-blooded dinosaurs? --
The evolution of flight --
The origin of mammals --
Marine reptiles --
Why flowers are beautiful --
The end of the dinosaurs --
Cenozoic mammals : origins, guilds and trends --
Geography and evolution --
Primates --
Evolving towrds humans --
The ice age --
Humans and the ice age.
Responsibility: Richard Cowen.
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Praise for previous editions:"Cowens book is refreshing and radically different from most other textbook of this genre as it presents to the non-scientist the study of paleontology and the history of Read more...

 
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