At the Water's Edge Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea

Name: At the Water's Edge Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
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ISBN: 9780684856230

ISBN-10: 0684856239

ISBN-13: 9780684856230

Edition: 1999

Authors: Carl Zimmer, Carl Dennis Buell

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Everybody Out of the Pond At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is the story of how we got here, what we left behind, and what we brought with us. We all know about evolution, but it still seems absurd that our ancestors were fish. Darwin's idea of natural selection was the key to solving generation-to-generation evolution -- microevolution -- but it could only point us toward a complete explanation, still to come, of the engines of macroevolution, the…

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List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 9/8/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Carl Zimmer writes the monthly essay in the US magazine Natural History, having inherited this position from Stephen Jay Gould.



Introduction: Life's Warps



After a Lost Balloon



Limitless Air, Ho!



How to Make a Hand



Darwin's Saplings



The Mind at Sea



The Equation of a Whale



Along the Tethyan Shores



Walking to Swimming



A Voyage Out



On the Trails of Macroevolution


Evolutionary Chronology


Glossary


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index