Название: Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters, Second Edition
Автор(ы): Donald R. Prothero
Издательство: Columbia University Press
Год: 2017
ISBN: 0231180640
Страниц: 456
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 47 MB

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.