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History of life

Title
History of life / Richard Cowen.
Author
Cowen, Richard, 1940-
Publication
Malden, MA : Blackwell Science, 2000.

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Description
xv, 432 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The origin of life -- Earth's earliest life -- Sex and nuclei : eukaryotes -- The evolution of animals -- Life in a changing world -- Extinction -- The early vertebrates -- Leaving the water -- Amphibians and reptiles -- Reptiles and thermoregulation -- The triassic takeover -- Dinosaurs -- Warm-blooded dinosaurs? -- The evolution of flight -- The origin of mammals -- Marine reptiles -- Why flowers are beautiful -- The end of the dinosaurs -- Cenozoic mammals : origins, guilds and trends -- Geography and evolution -- Primates -- Evolving towrds humans -- The ice age -- Humans and the ice age.
ISBN
  • 0632044446
  • 9780632044443
LCCN
99016542
OCLC
  • ocm41572551
  • 41572551
  • SCSB-865934
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library