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Synopsis
The last decade has seen remarkable new discoveries regarding the evolution of life based on the fossil record—from new information about the earliest multi–celled animals to a new candidate for the ancestor of insects to landmark findings about the region and lifestyle of dinosaurs. This book aims to integrate all of these new findings in an overall evolutionary context, starting with new ideas on the evolution of life on this planet and progressing through the entire fossil record.
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About the Author
Ken McNamara, is Senior Curator of invertebrate palaeontology, and John Long is Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology, at the Western Australian Museum.
From the Back Cover
In the last two decades the study of fossils has come of age, taking a central role in the formulation of ideas on evolution. The unravelling of the fossil record by continual new discoveries has played a major role in stimulating new ideas on patterns and rates of evolution, and on our understanding of the underlying processes and mechanisms of evolution. The Twentieth Century has seen an extraordinary increase in the rate and the range of palaeontological research worldwide. Fossil specimens in world collections have increased a million–fold since Charles Darwin s day. These new fossil finds have filled in many pieces in the great jigsaw of life . We are now experiencing a revolution in the way in which the fossil record is contributing to our understanding of the patterns and processes that have crafted the living world as we see it today. Witty vignettes on the "lucky" rise of the vertebrates, polar dinosaurs, and many other interesting narratives a fun but educational excursion throughout the history of life. Michael L. McKinney, University of Tennessee, Knoxville immensely enjoyable a fascinating book, nicely illustrated, exciting and often humorous on the one hand, but seriously scientific on the other. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the fossil record and what it has to tell us. Euan N. K. Clarkson, University of Edinburgh Popular Science
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- PublisherWiley–Blackwell
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0471974072
- ISBN 13 9780471974079
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages312
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