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This text is aimed at students and anyone interested in the history of life on our planet. It explores the 'whys' of events that occurred, and in this newest edition, it takes a closer look at the evolution of the physical earth and the strong interactions between organisms and environment. The book’s coverage includes geography, climate, atmosphere, ocean, and land (a changing stage) while following interplay between organisms. Also new to this edition is a dedicated website which explores additional environmental factors and supplemental topics, and provides interactive exercises, a detailed glossary, key links and all art in downloadable form. The art is also available to instructors on CD-ROM in PowerPoint and Jpeg formats. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Covers the field of paleontology succinctly with the appropriate depth. Covers the vertebrates and invertebrate fossil record. Softcover. DLC: Paleontology.
This text is aimed at students and anyone interested in the history of life on our planet. It explores the 'whys' of events that occurred, and in this newest edition, it takes a closer look at the evolution of the physical earth and the strong interactions between organisms and environment. The book’s coverage includes geography, climate, atmosphere, ocean, and land (a changing stage) while following interplay between organisms. Also new to this edition is a dedicated website which explores additional environmental factors and supplemental topics, and provides interactive exercises, a detailed glossary, key links and all art in downloadable form. The art is also available to instructors on CD-ROM in PowerPoint and Jpeg formats. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Covers the field of paleontology succinctly with the appropriate depth. Covers the vertebrates and invertebrate fossil record. Softcover. DLC: Paleontology.
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 75 books | 26 books that cite this book Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: rayfin fishes, lobefin fishes, erect limbs, iridium spike, oxygen revolution (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: North America, South America, New York, New Zealand, South Africa (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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Life on Earth is a fact, although we don't know where and how it began. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rayfin fishes, lobefin fishes, erect limbs, iridium spike, oxygen revolution, diapsid reptiles, stabbing teeth, gliding reptiles, ecological replacement, glass spherules, amniotic egg, lobe fins, metazoan groups, irregular echinoids, living reptiles, sabertooth cats, mammalian characters, ornithischian dinosaurs, shocked quartz, conducting strand, early amphibians, large clade, theropod dinosaurs, early reptiles, living amphibians Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, South America, New York, New Zealand, South Africa, Scientific American, Old World, Late Carboniferous, American Museum of Natural History, Early Cretaceous, Dover Publications Inc, Paleozoic Fauna, The Clone, Carrier's Constraint, Burgess Shale, Northern Hemisphere, North Atlantic, Bob Giuliani, East Africa, New Guinea, New World, American Scientist, Arctic Ocean, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Cambridge University Press New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Life on Earth is a fact, although we don't know where and how it began. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rayfin fishes, lobefin fishes, erect limbs, iridium spike, oxygen revolution, diapsid reptiles, stabbing teeth, gliding reptiles, ecological replacement, glass spherules, amniotic egg, lobe fins, metazoan groups, irregular echinoids, living reptiles, sabertooth cats, mammalian characters, ornithischian dinosaurs, shocked quartz, conducting strand, early amphibians, large clade, theropod dinosaurs, early reptiles, living amphibians Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, South America, New York, New Zealand, South Africa, Scientific American, Old World, Late Carboniferous, American Museum of Natural History, Early Cretaceous, Dover Publications Inc, Paleozoic Fauna, The Clone, Carrier's Constraint, Burgess Shale, Northern Hemisphere, North Atlantic, Bob Giuliani, East Africa, New Guinea, New World, American Scientist, Arctic Ocean, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Cambridge University Press New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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This book cites 75
books:
- The Invertebrates: A New Synthesis by R. S. K. Barnes on 8 pages
- The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim Flannery on page 335, page 399, and page 403
- Mammal Evolution by R.J.G. Savage on page 259, page 318, and page 336
- Dynamics of Dinosaurs by R. McNeill. Alexander on page 202, and page 270