Evolution a visual record

Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting to everyone. Evolution: A Visual Record transports readers from the near-mystical (human ancestors) to the historic (the famous 'finches' Darwin...

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Körperschaft: Phaidon Verlag GmbH (Verlag)
Weitere Verfasser: Wallace, Joseph E. (VerfasserIn), Clark, Robert (FotografIn), Quammen, David (VerfasserIn eines Vorworts), Wallace, Joseph (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: London, New York Phaidon 2016
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Zusammenfassung:Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting to everyone. Evolution: A Visual Record transports readers from the near-mystical (human ancestors) to the historic (the famous 'finches' Darwin collected on the Galápagos Islands that spurred his theory); the recently understood (the link between dinosaurs and modern birds) to the simply astonishing.--
These views of life / David Quammen -- Darwin, Wallace, and the birth of a theory / Joseph Wallace -- Ancient history -- Birds : selection, natural and artificial -- Diversity in cold blood -- Plants : evolution blooms -- Insects : adaptation in abundance -- Mammals : a web of connection -- Human origins -- The evolution of evolution
Beschreibung:239 Seiten
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25.4 cm x 19 cm
ISBN:0714871184
0-7148-7118-4
9780714871189
978-0-7148-7118-9