Evolution : a visual record /
Clark, Robert,1961-photographer.
Wallace, Joseph E.,author.
Quammen, David,1948-writer of foreword.
Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting to everyone. Evolution: A Visual Record transports readers from the near-mystical (human ancestors) to the historic (the famous 'finches' Darwin collected on the Galápagos Islands that spurred his theory); the recently understood (the link between dinosaurs and modern birds) to the simply astonishing.--
Includes index.
Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting to everyone. Evolution: A Visual Record transports readers from the near-mystical (human ancestors) to the historic (the famous 'finches' Darwin collected on the Galápagos Islands that spurred his theory); the recently understood (the link between dinosaurs and modern birds) to the simply astonishing.--
These views of life / David Quammen -- Darwin, Wallace, and the birth of a theory / Joseph Wallace -- Ancient history -- Birds : selection, natural and artificial -- Diversity in cold blood -- Plants : evolution blooms -- Insects : adaptation in abundance -- Mammals : a web of connection -- Human origins -- The evolution of evolution.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution (Biology)
Life
Natural history
Evolution (Biology)
Life
Natural history.