A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review "A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth--capacious, jammed with treasures, full of learning and wide-eyed wonder."--The Boston Globe From its origins on the still-forming planet to the recent emergence of Homo sapiens--one of the world's leading paleontologists offers an absorbing account of how and why life on earth developed as it did. Interlacing the tale of his own...
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--<...
In Earth, the acclaimed author of Trilobite and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth s physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us.
Beginning with Mt. Vesuvius, whose eruption in Roman times helped spark the science of geology, and ending in a lab in the West of England where mathematical models and lab experiments replace direct observation, Richard Fortey tells us what the present says about ancient geologic processes. He shows how plate tectonics came to rule the geophysical landscape and how the evidence...
In Earth, the acclaimed author of Trilobite and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth s physical past, showing how the hist...
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures. Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago. As bewilderingly diverse then as the beetle is today, they survived in the arctic or the tropics, were spiky or smooth, were large as lobsters or small as fleas. And because they flourished for three hundred million years, they can be used to glimpse a less evolved...
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, ac...
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The arthropods contain more species than any other animal group, but the evolutionary pathways which led to their current diversity are still an issue of controversy. Arthropod Relationships provides an overview of our current understanding, responding to the new data arising from sequencing DNA, the discovery of new Cambrian fossils as direct evidence of early arthropod history, and developmental genetics. These new areas of research have stimulated a reconsideration of classical morphology and embryology. ArthropodRelationships is the first synthesis of the...
The arthropods contain more species than any other animal group, but the evolutionary pathways which led to their current diversity are still an issue...
From one of the world s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite , Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, throughout time. Evolution, it seems, has not completely obliterated its tracks as more advanced organisms have evolved; the history of life on earth is far older and odder than many of us realize. Scattered across the globe, these remarkable...
From one of the world s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite , Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on...
Die Oberflache der Erde hat eine bewegte Geschichte hinter sich. So stabil uns manche grossraumigen Landschaftsstrukturen wie Gebirgszuge, Tiefebenen und Ozeane auch erscheinen mogen, so sehr hat sich das Antlitz der Erde doch im Laufe von Milliarden von Jahren immer wieder verandert. Und uberall trifft man auf die Spuren dieser unruhigen Vergangenheit. Richard Fortey ist ihr Chronist, und indem er uns an geologisch besonders interessante Statten fuhrt und deren Eigenheiten erlautert, lehrt er uns, das Wesen der Erde besser zu verstehen. Er zeigt, dass nicht nur die Gestalt der Erdoberflache,...
Die Oberflache der Erde hat eine bewegte Geschichte hinter sich. So stabil uns manche grossraumigen Landschaftsstrukturen wie Gebirgszuge, Tiefebenen ...
"Richard Fortey is without peer among science writers." Bill Bryson
In his accessible introduction to the study and meaning of fossils, the world-renowned paleontologist Richard Fortey provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of fossils and their use in reconstructing the history of life on Earth. Extensively illustrated in full color throughout, this fifth edition of Fossils includes the most recent advances in our understanding of the fossil record and the significance of new fossil finds.
Fortey clearly explains what fossils are, how they form, how to identify...
"Richard Fortey is without peer among science writers." Bill Bryson
In his accessible introduction to the study and meaning of fossils, the w...
