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Evolution : what the fossils say and why it matters

✍ Scribed by Donald R. Prothero

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 455
Edition: 2nd
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

An entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. 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 for evolution. Evolution tackles systematics and cladistics, rock dating, neo-Darwinism, and macroevolution. It includes extensive coverage Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword: Why people do not accept evolution --
To the reader: Is evolution a threat to your religious beliefs? --
Prologue: Fossils and evolution --
Preface to the second edition --
Acknowledgments --
Part I. Evolution and the fossil record. The nature of science
Science and creationism
The fossil record
The evolution of evolution
Systematics and evolution --
Part II. Evolution? : the fossils say yes! Life's origins
Cambrian "explosion" --
or "slow fuse"?
Spineless wonders of evolution
Fish tales
Fish out of water
Onto the land and back to the sea : the amniotes
Dinosaurs evolve --
and fly
Mammalian explosion
Bossies and blowholes
The ape's reflection?
Why does it matter?

✦ Subjects

Evolutionary paleobiology;Evolution (Biology);Paleogeography

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