On Methuselah's trail : living fossils and the great extinctions

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On Methuselah's trail : living fossils and the great extinctions

Peter Douglas Ward ; foreword by Steven M. Stanley ; [illustrations by Linda Krause, unless noted otherwise]

W.H. Freeman, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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On Methuselah's Trail tells the story of some of the Earth's most remarkable inhabitants living fossils. Labelled 'living fossils' by Darwin, the ancient animals and plants Peter Ward explores have survived with little or no change the cataclysmic events that transformed life on earth. These 'Methuselahs' can tell us much about the history of life and about the great extinction periods in which so many other species died out.

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  • NCID
    BA24315790
  • ISBN
    • 0716722038
    • 071672488X
  • LCCN
    91017071
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 212 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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