Evolution
By: written by Linda Gamlin
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: DK eyewitness books; DK eyewitness books
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley; Distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York; Boston
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780756656089
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Natural history; Science; Evolution (Biology); Juvenile literature; Evolution
Other titles: Eyewitness evolution
Description: Text about and photography of experiments, animals, plants, bones, and fossils reveal the ideas and discoveries that have changed our understanding of the natural world and how life began.
Notes: Includes index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Creation stories; title: Fossils and fairy tales; title: Victims of the flood; title: Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck; title: Extinct animals; title: A series of catastrophes; title: Dinosaur frenzy; title: Charles Darwin; title: Living evidence; title: Animal and plant distribution; title: Fossil evidence; title: How old is Earth?; title: Artificial selection; title: Variation and inheritance; title: The struggle for existence; title: Natural selection; title: Understanding adaptation; title: How new species are formed; title: Living intermediates; title: Fossil intermediates; title: Jumps and gaps; title: Ladders and branches; title: Gregor Mendel; title: Solving the DNA puzzle; title: The molecular evidence; title: The origin of life; title: Science and belief; title: History of life; title: Up to the present; title: Classifying life; title: Discoveries in evolution; title: Find out more; title: Glossary; title: Index.