Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

Name: Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
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ISBN: 9780307275530

ISBN-10: 0307275531

ISBN-13: 9780307275530

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Authors: Richard Fortey

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From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author ofTrilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on EarthandDry Storeroom No. 1comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, throughout time. Evolution, it seems, has not completely obliterated its tracks as more advanced organisms have evolved; the history of life on earth is far older—and odder—than many of us realize. Scattered across the globe, these remarkable plants and animals continue to mark seminal events in geological time. From a moonlit beach in Delaware, where the hardy…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.97" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Richard Fortey is a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London.