Origins : the search for our prehistoric past
(2016)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
570/RHODES,F
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, 2016
DESCRIPTION
xi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781501702440, 1501702440 :, 9781501702440
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Defrosting the mammoth -- Terrestrial timepieces -- From so simple a beginning -- Classification : the diversity of life -- Spineless wonders -- Bones, scales, and fins -- The greening of the land -- The amphibian foothold -- The reign of the reptiles -- The air -- The blossoming earth -- The rise of the mammals -- The mammalian explosion -- The Leakeys' legacy -- Endless forms, most beautiful and most wonderful -- On extinction -- Have been and are being evolved : the development of life