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Donald R. Prothero's Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book's widespread adoption in courses that teach the nature and value of fossil evidence. Evolution tackles flood geology, rock dating, neo-Darwinism, and macroevolution. It includes extensive coverage of the primordial soup, invertebrate transitions, the development of the backbone, the reign of the dinosaurs, and the transformation from chimpanzee to human. The book details the many "missing links," including some of the most recent discoveries, that flesh out the fossil timeline and the evolutionary process. In this second edition, Prothero describes new transitional fossils from various periods, vividly depicting such bizarre creatures as the Odontochelys, or the "turtle on the half shell," fossil snakes with legs, and the "Frogamander," a new example of amphibian transition.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Life sciences: general issues

• Full title: Evolution
• Author: Donald R. Prothero
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 456
• EAN: 9780231180641
• ISBN: 9780231180641
• ID: 15537633
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 1012 g
• Dimensions: 188 × 261 × 35 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. August 2017

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