Thread of life : the Smithsonian looks at evolution /
Lewin, Roger.
Thread of life : the Smithsonian looks at evolution / by Roger Lewin. - 1st ed. - Washington, D.C. : New York, N.Y. : Smithsonian Books ; Distributed by Norton, c1982. - 256 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : color ill. ; 29 cm.
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.
0895990105 9780895990105 0895990296 9780895990297
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Evolution (Biology)
QH366.2 / .L48 1982
/ LEW
Thread of life : the Smithsonian looks at evolution / by Roger Lewin. - 1st ed. - Washington, D.C. : New York, N.Y. : Smithsonian Books ; Distributed by Norton, c1982. - 256 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : color ill. ; 29 cm.
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.
0895990105 9780895990105 0895990296 9780895990297
82016834
Evolution (Biology)
QH366.2 / .L48 1982
/ LEW