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How did life begin? What was 'snowball earth'? Why did the dinosaurs become extinct? Are we all descended from 'African Eve'? Will humans be responsible for the next major extinction? These and many other fundamental questions are addressed in this masterly account of The Story o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Southwood, Richard, Sir
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Evolution (Biology)
Extinction (Biology)
Paleoecology.
Biology.
Paleontology.
Biological Evolution
Biology
Paleontology
Extinction, Biological
Extinction (Biologie)
Paléoécologie.
Évolution (Biologie)
Biologie.
Paléontologie.
evolution.
biology.
paleontology.
NATURE > Animals > Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures.
NATURE > Fossils.
SCIENCE > Paleontology.
Paleoecology
Evolution
Leben
Entstehung
Ontstaansgeschiedenis.
Leven.
Evolutietheorie.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:How did life begin? What was 'snowball earth'? Why did the dinosaurs become extinct? Are we all descended from 'African Eve'? Will humans be responsible for the next major extinction? These and many other fundamental questions are addressed in this masterly account of The Story of Life, by eminent biologist and teacher Richard Southwood. The story unfolds with the formation of the earth around four thousand million years ago. Life first emerged a hundred million years later, and it took another fifteen million years for more complex life-forms to appear. Periods of relative calm were punctuated.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-258) and index.
ISBN:9780191545818
0191545813

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