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22%OFFRoger Hargreaves - Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life - 9780226284972 - V9780226284972
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Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life

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Description for Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life Paperback. "Nature" has published news about the history of life ever since its first issue in 1869. This work brings together 19 review articles written for "Nature" over the past decade. Topics include major extinction events, homeotic genes and body plans and the origin and evolution of the primates. Editor(s): Gee, Henry. Num Pages: 376 pages, 92 illustrations, 7 tables. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ; PSAJ; PSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 666.
"Nature" has published news about the history of life ever since its first issue in 1869, in which T.H. Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog") wrote about Triassic dinosaurs. In recent years, the field has enjoyed a tremendous flowering due to new investigative techniques drawn from cladistics (a revolutionary method for charting evolutionary relationships) and molecular biology. "Shaking the Tree" brings together 19 review articles written for "Nature" over the past decade by many of the major figures in paleontology and evolution, from Stephen Jay Gould to Simon Conway Morris. Each article is brief, accessible and opinionated, providing "shoot from the hip" accounts ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
418
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226284972
SKU
V9780226284972
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