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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
NATURE / Ecology.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea: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

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