This text is designed for students and anyone else with an interest in the history of life on our planet.
His memoir offers an interesting case study, a subjective addition to the “objective” historical works on Central and Eastern European state socialism.
In scouring their world to understand it, colonists wrote about “wonders,” remarkable occurrences that demanded explanation. They believed in supernatural phenomena as ac tive agents intervening in the world. They observed and recounted ...
This Very Short Introduction presents a succinct and accessible guide to the key episodes in the story of life on earth - from the very origins of life four million years ago to the extraordinary diversity of species around the globe today.
This book serves three audiences: it is an introduction to palaeontology; a general education course that introduces nonspecialists to science and scientific thought; and an introduction to the history of life for biologists who know a lot ...
See also the excellent review by our colleague David Jablonski: D. Jablonski, “Extinctions in the Fossil Record (and Discussion),” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 344, 1307 (1994): 11–17. 6.
Brimful of wit, fascinating personal experience and high scholarship, this book may well be our best introduction yet to the complex history of life on Earth. A Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection With 32 pages of photographs
In A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, Henry Gee zips through the last 4.6 billion years with infectious enthusiasm and intellectual rigor.
Wahba , Albert J. , Carlos Basilio , Joseph Speyer , Peter Lengyel , Robert S. Miller , and Severo Ochoa . “ Synthetic Polynucleotides and the Amino Acid Code , VI . ” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , U.S.A. 48 ( 1962 ) ...
A newly revised and fully updated edition of the market-leading introduction to paleontology Designed for students and anyone else with an interest in the history of life on our planet, the new edition of this classic text describes the ...