History of life
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History of life
Blackwell Scientific Publications, c1995
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this undergraduate text the author has written an introductory book on the history of life, suitable for short courses and for students with a limited background in science. Based on the author's considerable experience of teaching just such a course, the book is structured as a series of essays on the major events and innovations in the history of life on Earth. Constant reference is made to current studies of ecological and biological principles
Table of Contents
- The origin of life
- Earth's earliest life
- Sex and nuclei: eukaryotes
- The evolution of animals
- Life in a changing world
- Paleoclimate and evolution
- The early vertebrates
- Leaving the water
- Amphibians and reptiles
- Reptiles and thermoregulation
- The Triassic takeover
- Dinosaurs
- The evolution of flight
- The origin of mammals
- Marine reptiles
- Why flowers are beautiful
- The end of the dinosaurs
- Cenozoic guilds and trends
- Geography and evolution
- Primates
- Evolving toward humans
- Humans and the Ice Age
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