Billions of years, amazing changes : the story of evolution
(2011)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
J/576.8/PRINGLE,L
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Honesdale, Pa. : Boyds Mills, [2011]
©2011
©2011
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
102 pages : color illustrations, color maps, photographs (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781590787236 (hbk.), 1590787234 (hbk.), 1590787234 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Imagine -- Evidence from the earth -- How fossils form -- Layers of rock, layers of past life -- The adventures and discoveries of Charles Darwin -- Evolution -- Variation -- Nature's bounty -- Competition -- Natural selection -- After Darwin -- Telling time -- Genetics -- More and more fossils -- "Missing links" found -- Moving continents -- On faraway islands -- Coevolution -- Origin of species -- Evolution, going on right now
Traces the history of man's discoveries about evolution, covering both the mechanisms of evolution and examples of natural selection
1000
1000L