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Evolving Animals: The Story of our Kingdom
Wallace Arthur
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Description for Evolving Animals: The Story of our Kingdom
paperback. Covering all the main animal groups, from jellyfish to mammals, this book unravels the story of animal evolution. Illustrator(s): Arthur, Stephen. Num Pages: 344 pages, 119 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PSAJ; PSV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 560.
What do we know about animal evolution in the early twenty-first century? How much more do we know today than Darwin did? What are the most exciting discoveries that have been made in the last few decades? Covering all the main animal groups, from jellyfish to mammals, this book considers all of these questions and more. Its 30 short chapters, each written in a conversational, nontechnical style and accompanied by numerous original illustrations, deal equally with the pattern and the process of evolution - with both evolutionary trees and evolutionary mechanisms. They cover diverse evolutionary themes, including: the animal toolkit, ... Read more
What do we know about animal evolution in the early twenty-first century? How much more do we know today than Darwin did? What are the most exciting discoveries that have been made in the last few decades? Covering all the main animal groups, from jellyfish to mammals, this book considers all of these questions and more. Its 30 short chapters, each written in a conversational, nontechnical style and accompanied by numerous original illustrations, deal equally with the pattern and the process of evolution - with both evolutionary trees and evolutionary mechanisms. They cover diverse evolutionary themes, including: the animal toolkit, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107627956
SKU
V9781107627956
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-18
About Wallace Arthur
Wallace Arthur is Emeritus Professor of Zoology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is one of the founders of the interdisciplinary field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), and has a special interest in explaining scientific concepts in plain, nontechnical language. He is the author of nine previous books, including Biased Embryos and Evolution (Cambridge, 2004) and The Origin ... Read more
Reviews for Evolving Animals: The Story of our Kingdom
'Wallace Arthur, a renowned evolutionary biologist, has written another of his excellent and easily approachable books introducing concepts, ideas and evidence of evolution. This new book is written in an informal style that a non-biologist should be able to follow without difficulty. He covers animal evolution from its beginning in deep time, and explains current ideas simply … Highly recommended ... Read more