The Science Times Book of Fossils and Evolution - Hardcover

9781558216525: The Science Times Book of Fossils and Evolution

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558216529 ISBN 13: 9781558216525

Publisher: Lyons Pr, 1998

Traces the history of life on Earth through a series of articles from the Science Times discussing vying theories of evolution and fossil finds

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Review:

Readers of the Science Times section on Tuesdays in the New York Times are familiar with the high-quality features to be found there. Now the best science and nature articles have been collected in a series of books on Fish, Birds, Fossils and Evolution, and The Brain.

Fossils and Evolution covers topics like the evolution of "bigness," fossil finds, and the origin of life. A chapter on the evolution of humans explores much of the recent paleontological research into this controversial subject. These articles are a great overview of the research highlights that made splashes in the media, as well as the quiet discoveries that make science fascinating. --Therese Littleton

From the Back Cover:

For more than twenty years, the Science Times section of The New York Times has been the source of the latest discoveries in the worlds of archaeology, anthropology, and paleontology for readers throughout the world. The award-winning Times writers make the recent finds and their implications comprehensible, and in lucid analyses take readers beyond the headlines toward deeper understanding.The Science Times Book of Fossils and Evolution traces life's first foothold on earth and the explosion of creation in the Cambrian era, through the reigning years of the largest animals to ever walk the planet - the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic - to the emergence of Homo sapiens two hundred thousand years ago. This illustrated volume reports on extraordinary fossil finds and currently vying theories of evolution. Included are the most pivotal discoveries of paleontology: the unearthing of Australopithecus in Ethiopia, the treasure trove of fossils in the Gobi Desert, and the startling discovery that Neanderthals lived in Europe only thirty thousand years ago.Itself a trove of treasures, The Science Times Book of Fossils and Evolution will be enjoyed by amateur archaeologists, naturalists, students, dinosaur enthusiasts, and everyone interested in science. (71/4 X 91/2, 252 pages, illustrations)

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