Screen LibraryEvolution in action : natural history through spectacular skeletons /
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| Literature type: | Book |
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English French |
| Edition: | Rev. ed. |
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| Item Description: |
Previous ed.: 2007. Translated from the French by Linda Asher. |
| Carrier Form: | 421 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-419) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780500515983 (hbk.) 0500515980 (hbk.) |
| Index Number: | QL607 |
| CLC: | Q959.3-64 |
| Call Number: | Q959.3-64/P187/Rev.ed. |
| Contents: |
Editor's note / Preface / General introduction / pt. 1. Architecture -- The art of repetition -- A deep unity -- Bony armor -- Five fingers -- The problems of giants -- Small animals and large -- The false fishes -- The explosion of the five classes -- Animal structures -- pt. 2. The birth of species -- Athene noctua -- All different -- Hybridization -- The three bears -- The seagull ring -- Of mice and men -- The sparrow's beak -- A welcoming nest -- The running ape -- pt. 3. Seduction and selection -- The red queen -- Armaments and ornaments -- The most famous necks -- Competing fangs -- Love before death -- The number of horns -- The gender of bones -- pt. 4. Evolutionary tinkering -- The unicorn's touch -- Teeth of horn -- Paws, wings, and fins -- The last digits -- The two pandas -- The mutants of the deep -- Adults still infants -- pt. 5. The power of environment -- Sky conquerors -- Sea cows -- The triumph of the ruminants -- Lost legs -- Eating ants -- Mirror continents -- Big skulls -- pt. 6. Evolution and time -- A brief moment for the Ibis -- Figures from the past -- A highly evolved puzzle -- Monitored evolution -- Man's time. |