| Description |
xiv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-292) and index. |
| Contents |
The origin of life in the vents -- Water, water everywhere -- Here we come, ready or not -- The garden of the ediacara -- Wonders of the Burgess Shale -- The Cambrian explosion -- What happened to the trilobites? -- "Living fossils" -- Here come the mollusks -- Brachiopods -- Cephalopods -- What did it mean to have a backbone? -- The jawless fishes -- The lungfishes -- The coelacanths -- Pisces triumphant -- The evolution of bioluminescence -- Sharks, etc. -- Land ho! -- Marine reptiles -- Encased in armor plate -- The sea snakes -- The crocodilians -- Birds that swim -- The sea cows -- The sea weasels -- Flippers for feet -- The desmostylians -- The cetaceans -- The living whales -- The aquatic ape -- The end of the beginning. |
| Subject |
Marine animals -- Evolution.
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Marine animals. |
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Evolution. |
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Life -- Origin.
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Life -- Origin. |
| ISBN |
0142001562 paperback $15.00 |
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