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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 lifew as a dynamic and exciting science." (Journal of the Society for Sedimentary Geology) Read more...
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- Paleontology.
- Paléontologie
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- Fauna.
- Mensen.
- Ontstaansgeschiedenis.
- Paläontologie.
