Evolution What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

Name: Evolution What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
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ISBN: 9780231139625

ISBN-10: 0231139624

ISBN-13: 9780231139625

Edition: 2007

Authors: Donald R. Prothero, Carl Buell

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Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals into land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we walked upright long before we acquired large brains, and new evidence from molecules that enable scientists to decipher the tree of life as never before. The fossil record is now one of the strongest lines of evidence for evolution. In this engaging and richly illustrated book, Donald R. Prothero weaves an entertaining though intellectually rigorous history out of the transitional forms and series…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/6/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 408
Size: 0.73" wide x 1.02" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 2.684
Language: English



Foreword: Why People Do Not Accept Evolution


To the Reader: Is Evolution a Threat to Your Religious Beliefs?


Prologue: Fossils and Evolution



Evolution and the Fossil Record



The Nature of Science



Science and Creationism



The Fossil Record



The Evolution of Evolution



Systematics and Evolution



Evolution? The Fossils Say Yes!



Life's Origins



Cambrian "Explosion" - or Slow Fuse?



Spineless Wonders of Evolution



Fish Tales



Fish Out of Water



Onto the Land and Back to the Sea: The Amniotes



Dinosaurs Evolve - and Fly



Mammalian Explosion



Bossies and Blowholes



The Ape's Reflection?



Why Does It Matter?