Frank H T Rhodes

Origins

The Search for Our Prehistoric Past

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Frank H. T. Rhodes is President Emeritus of Cornell University. A geologist by training, he has published numerous works on geology and education including the books Earth: A Tenant¿s Manual and The Creation of the Future: The Role of the American University (both from Cornell), The Evolution of Life, and Language of the Earth. He holds the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society, the Ian Campbell Medal of the American Geological Institute, and the Clark-Kerr Medal of the University of California¿Berkeley. He holds more than thirty honorary degrees from universities both in the United States and abroad.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 153mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781501702440
• ISBN-10: 1501702440
• Artikelnr.: 45195541

Autorenporträt

Frank H. T. Rhodes is President Emeritus of Cornell University. A geologist by training, he has published numerous works on geology and education including the books Earth: A Tenant's Manual and The Creation of the Future: The Role of the American University (both from Cornell), The Evolution of Life, and Language of the Earth. He holds the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society, the Ian Campbell Medal of the American Geological Institute, and the Clark-Kerr Medal of the University of California-Berkeley. He holds more than thirty honorary degrees from universities both in the United States and abroad.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Defrosting the Mammoth
2. Terrestrial Timepieces
3. "From So Simple a Beginning"
4. Classification: The Diversity of Life
5. Spineless Wonders
6. Bone, Scales, and Fins: The Early Vertebrates
7. The Greening of the Land
8. The Amphibian Foothold
9. The Reign of the Reptiles
10. The Air
11. The Blossoming Earth
12. The Rise of the Mammals
13. The Mammalian Explosion
14. The Leakeys' Legacy
15. "Endless Forms, Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful"
16. On Extinction
17. "Have Been and Are Being Evolved": The Development of Life
Epilogue