Fifty-five million years ago, a furry, hoofed mammal about the size of a dog ventured into the shallow brackish remnant of the Tethys Sea and set its descendants on a path that would lead to their complete abandonment of the land. These early ancestors of cetaceans (dolphins, porpoises, and whales)
What the theory of evolution can’t tell us
✍ Scribed by John Dupré
- Book ID
- 108530399
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 90 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0011-1562
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