Brian Switek

Written in Stone

Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The epic quest for missing links and other myths about evolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bellevue Literary Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9781934137291
• ISBN-10: 1934137294
• Artikelnr.: 29940996

Autorenporträt

Brian Switek is a science writer and research associate at the New Jersey State Museum who has done fieldwork on fossils in Utah, Montana, and Wyoming. He has been a frequent guest on the BBC and has written about paleontology for the Smithsonian magazine, London Times, Wired Science, Eureka and elsewhere. He is also the author of the acclaimed science blog Laelaps and Smithsonian magazine's Dinosaur Tracking.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Living Rock
2. Moving Mountains
3. From Fins to Fingers
4. Footprints and Feathers on the Sands of Time
5. The Meek Inherit the Earth
6. As Monstrous as a Whale
7. Behemoth
8. The End of the Trail
9. Through the Looking Glass
10. The End of Progress?