Beasts of Eden: walking whales, dawn horses, and other enigmas of mammal evolution
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-314) and index 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 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 |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 340 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0520237315 0520939409 1282358316 1597344818 9780520237315 9780520939400 9781282358317 9781597344814 |
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| spelling | Wallace, David Rains 1945- Verfasser (DE-588)133314553 aut Beasts of Eden walking whales, dawn horses, and other enigmas of mammal evolution David Rains Wallace Berkeley University of California Press 2004 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 340 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-314) and index 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 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 Mammals Evolution Fossils Mammifères / Évolution Mammifères fossiles SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals bisacsh NATURE / Animals / Mammals bisacsh SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution bisacsh Mammals / Evolution fast Mammals, Fossil fast Mammals Evolution Mammals, Fossil http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=119361 Aggregator Volltext |
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