Brian Switek

Written in Stone (Icon Science) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Darwin’s theory was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of organisms were nowhere to be found. By the 1970s this absence of ‘transitional fossils’ was hotly debated; some palaeontologists wondering if the these ‘missing links’ had been so quick that no trace of them was left.However, during the past three decades fossils of walking whales from Pakistan, feathered dinosaurs from China, fish with feet from the Arctic Circle, ape-like humans from Africa, and many more bizarre creatures that fill in crucial gaps in our understanding of evolution have all been unearthed. These discoveries have revolutionised the way in which the fossil record is read to make sense of life on Earth, including the evolution of human beings.WRITTEN IN STONE - a hugely compelling scientific history by an up-and-coming star of popular science - is the first account of the remarkable discovery of these gap fossils and of the new stories they tell about the evolution of life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Icon Books
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848313118
• Artikelnr.: 38445832

Autorenporträt

Brian Switek is a science writer and research associate at the New Jersey State Museum. He writes the blog Laelaps for Wired Science ('Brilliant writing about palaeontology and evolution' The Times) and Dinosaur Tracking for Smithsonian. He has been a guest on BBC Radio 4's Material World and written for The Times and The Guardian as well as the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American. This is his first book.

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?