num_pages: 208
description: This introduction offers an explanation of how fossils are a product of our evolving habitat. The emphasis is on what paleontology is really about, how the paleontologist tries to find out the ways in which fossil animals lived and how geological processes have interacted with the history of life.
language: English
title: Fossils: The Key to the Past
titlecomplete: Fossils: The Key to the Past
genres: History, Palaeontology, Science, Biology, Nature, Geology, Nonfiction, Evolution
ratings_count: 45
publisher: Harvard University Press