On Methuselah's Trail - Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions

Peter Douglas Ward

ISBN 10: 071672488X / ISBN 13: 9780716724889

Published by W H Freeman & Co, New York, 1992

About this Item

Enthusiastic account of the author's travels around the world in search of the species who have persisted, despite the extinction of their evolutionary contemporaries. Foreword by Steven M Stanley. 212pp with index, illustrated with black and white drawings and photographs. Front cover partially darkened, with some shelfwear, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 009787

Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Methuselah's Trail - Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions
• Publisher: W H Freeman & Co, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071672488X
• ISBN 13: 9780716724889
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • History/Archaeology/Social History

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Synopsis

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.