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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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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Special chemistry: Pre- and Early Archaean: 4550-3500 Mya
  • A quick start: Middle and Late Archaean: 3500-2500 Mya
  • Cells with nuclei: Proterozic: 2500-600 Mya
  • Jellyfish, polyps and worms: Late Proterozoic: 700-545 Mya
  • Claws, rasps and shells: Cambrian-Ordovician: 545-438 Mya
  • Sand, mud and shallow seas: Silurian-Devonian: 438-362 Mya
  • The giant continent forms: Carboniferous-Permian: 362-248 Mya
  • A sparse start: Triassic: 248-206 Mya
  • The world of the dinosaurs: Jurassic-Cretaceous: 206-65 Mya
  • Today's world dawns: Tertiary-Quaternary: 65 Mya-Today
  • The evolution of the able ape: 20 Mya-30,000 years ago
  • Humans: the great modifiers: 40,000 years ago, today and tomorrow.

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