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Winner, 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Prize for Science Writing
Among the major events in evolutionary history, few rival in importance the appearance of animals. The Rise of Animals―a significant reference providing a comprehensive synthesis of the early radiation of the animal kingdom―fully captures this moment in geologic time.
Five of the world's leading paleontologists take us on a journey to the most important fossil sites that serve as unique windows to the earliest animal life―including the Ediacara Hills of Australia, the Russian taiga and tundra, the deserts of southwest Africa, and the rugged coasts of Newfoundland. Each of these places holds a rich fossil record that reveals how the animal form came into existence and why some groups succeeded while others failed. The authors describe the diversification of the Kingdom Animalia into the familiar body plans of today: from simple animals such as sponges to complex groups like mollusks, arthropods, echinoderms, and chordates that appear explosively in the Cambrian.
This exquisitely illustrated book reveals the early moments of an evolutionary process that eventually resulted in our own species. An essential resource for paleontologists, biologists, geologists, and teachers, The Rise of Animals is the best single reference on one of earth’s most significant events.
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Mikhail A. Fedonkin is the head of the Precambrian Laboratory at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
James G. Gehling is the senior curator at the South Australian Museum.
Kathleen Grey is the chief paleontologist at the Geological Survey of Western Australia.
Guy M. Narbonne is a professor and Queen's Research Chair at Queens University, Canada.
Patricia Vickers-Rich holds a personal chair of paleontology and is founding director of the Monash Science Centre at Monash University in Australia.
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