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The Hidden Life of Life : A Walk through the Reaches of Time /
An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions, wolves, dogs, deer, and humans. In this compulsively readable book, she provides a plainspoken, big-pictu...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures ;
13 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. About This Book
- 2. Our Bedroom
- 3. Microbes
- 4. Protists
- 5. Fungi
- 6. Animals
- 7. Dry Land
- 8. Lichens
- 9. Plants
- 10. Arthropods on Land
- 11. Vertebrates
- 12. Amphibians
- 13. Proto-Mammals
- 14. Dinosaurs
- 15. Pterosaurs
- 16. Crocodiles
- 17. Birds
- 18. Mammals
- 19. From Monkeys to the Missing Link
- 20. The Line to Homo Sapiens
- 21. Neandertals
- 22. Why Do We Look the Way We Look
- 23. The San, Formerly Known as Bushmen
- 24. Gaia's Rule One:
- 25. Gaia's Rule Two:
- 26. Gaia's Rule Three:
- 27. The Present
- 28. The Future
- CODA
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS