Thread of life : the Smithsonian looks at evolution / by Roger Lewin.
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TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Norton, c1982.Edition: 1st edDescription: 256 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : color ill. ; 29 cmISBN: - 0895990105
- 9780895990105
- 0895990296
- 9780895990297
- 575 LEW
- QH366.2 .L48 1982
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Includes index.
Introduction -- I. Diversity, continuity, and change : Time and the rocks -- Darwin and the origin -- The force and shape of evolution -- Shifting continents -- II. Beginnings in the sea : Life emerges from the soup -- A submarine explosion of forms -- Up from the sea -- III. The land and the air : The day of the dinosaur -- Life on the wing -- The mammals' world -- IV. In our time : The birth of humankind -- Beyond biology.
Charts the course of evolution and traces advances that have been made in the field.
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