Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts & Transitions Through TimeJones & Bartlett Learning, 2004 - 303 стор. Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts and Transitions Through Time provides readers with a compendium of scientific evidence of extinct organisms, or missing links, that bridge the evolutionary gaps between primordial species and modern life. The book introduces newcomers to the field of evolutionary science with an accessible discussion of basic scientific practices, rock and fossil dating techniques, and schools of classification. Readers are then ushered through a fascinating array of examples of evolutionary transition at all chronological and geographical scales, from the ultimate origins of life on Earth to the morphological changes that readers will observe during their lifetimes. |
Зміст
INTRODUCTION What Is a Missing Link | 1 |
CHAPTER 3 | 73 |
Ecological Context | 80 |
Domain of the Red Queen | 92 |
CHAPTER 5 | 112 |
Evolution | 131 |
The Thanksgiving Day Dinosaur | 141 |
On Hearing and Hinges | 165 |
CHAPTER 10 | 186 |
A History of Upstanding Primates | 209 |
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow | 257 |
EPILOGUE | 279 |
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Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts & Transitions Through Time Robert Allen Martin Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2014 |
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