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Praise for the New Edition:
"His material is accessible to even the uninitiated, but is still able to include fairly nuanced arguments. Mr. Cowen's gentle wit is much appreciated. This is a wonderful text, written in an engaging style by an author with both deep and broad knowledge of the history of life."
Emily Buchholtz, Wellesley College <!--end-->
"...the History of Life is a superb book which has no peer among published texts describing the macroevolution of life on Earth and the abiotic and biotic factors that have influenced the evolutionary history of living organisms."
Robert McMahon, U of Texas at Arlington
Praise for the Third Edition:
Anybody interested in the evolution of the Earth and its living organisms, especially animals, will find the content of this book useful and interesting. [...] I would recommend the book to those readers who would like to gain a basic knowledge on the Earth's evolution accompanied with detailed description of the evolution of animals.
L. Natr, Photosynthetica 40
'Should be compulsory for everyone who wants to call him/herself a palaeontologist.' J.W.F Reumer, PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, (2006)
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The living world today contains all kinds of creatures that do unexpected things-- we have come to expect that there were complex and unusual ways of life in the past, and that evolution took some unexpected turns at times. Entertainingly written for students, History of Life 4th Edition takes you to the edge of current knowledge.
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 the 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.
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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!
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