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Darwin's Lost World : the Hidden History of Animal Life.

Darwin puzzled over why ancient Precambrian rocks seemed barren of life. Brasier describes the quest to shed light on Darwin's Lost World, the discovery of its strange creatures, and what drove the sudden flurry of evolution called the Cambrian Explosion, amid tales told with relish of expediti...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brasier, M. D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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