| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 340 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-314) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: The Fresco and the Fossil -- Pachyderms in the Catacombs -- Dr. Jekyll and the Stonesfield Jaws -- The Origin of Mammals -- The Noblest Conquest -- Terrible Horns and Heavy Feet -- Mr. Megatherium versus Professor Mylodon -- Fire Beasts of the Antipodes -- Titans on Parade -- Five-toed Horses and Missing Links -- The Invisible Dawn Man -- A Bonaparte of Beasts -- Love and Theory -- Simpson's Cynodont-to-Smilodon Synthesis -- Shifting Ground -- Dissolving Ancestries -- Exploding Faunas -- The Revenge of the Shell Hunters -- Simpson Redivivus -- Winds Thieves of the Kyzylkum -- The Serpent's Offering -- Anthropoid Leapfrog -- Epilogue: Cenozoic Parks. |
| Summary |
Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosaurs, and their story is perhaps the more fascinating of the two--in part because it is also our own story. In this literate and entertaining book, eminent naturalist David Rains Wallace brings the saga of ancient mammals to a general audience for the first time. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mammals -- Evolution.
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Mammals -- Evolution. |
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Mammals, Fossil.
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Mammals, Fossil. |
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Mammals. |
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Evolution. |
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Fossils. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wallace, David Rains, 1945- Beasts of Eden. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004 0520237315 (DLC) 2003022857 (OCoLC)53254011 |
| ISBN |
9780520939400 (electronic book) |
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0520939409 (electronic book) |
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1597344818 (electronic book) |
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9781597344814 (electronic book) |
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9780520237315 |
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0520237315 |
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1282358316 |
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9781282358317 |
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