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Beasts of Eden : walking whales, dawn horses, and other enigmas of mammal evolution /
Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosaurs, and their story is perhaps the more fascinating of the two--in part because it is also our own story. In this literate and entertaining book, eminent naturalist David Rains Wallace brings the saga of ancient mammals to a general audience for...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: The Fresco and the Fossil
- Pachyderms in the Catacombs
- Dr. Jekyll and the Stonesfield Jaws
- The Origin of Mammals
- The Noblest Conquest
- Terrible Horns and Heavy Feet
- Mr. Megatherium versus Professor Mylodon
- Fire Beasts of the Antipodes
- Titans on Parade
- Five-toed Horses and Missing Links
- The Invisible Dawn Man
- A Bonaparte of Beasts
- Love and Theory
- Simpson's Cynodont-to-Smilodon Synthesis
- Shifting Ground
- Dissolving Ancestries
- Exploding Faunas
- The Revenge of the Shell Hunters
- Simpson Redivivus
- Winds Thieves of the Kyzylkum
- The Serpent's Offering
- Anthropoid Leapfrog
- Epilogue: Cenozoic Parks.