Evolution
Subtitle: the story of life
By: Douglas Palmer ; illustrated by Peter Barrett
Contributors: Natural History Museum (London, England)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780520255111
Description: "Evolution" recreates the 3.5 billion-year story of life on Earth in stunning detail through vivid full-color illustrations and graphics, the latest scientific information, and hundreds of photographs--a beautifully detailed panorama of communities from microbes to humankind that have lived on the planet's continents and in its oceans.
Notes: Twenty p. on folded leaves, unfold to 30 x 50 cm.

Published in association with the Natural History Museum (London) to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of his On the origin of species.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. What is evolution? ; Putting life in order; title: How to use this book; title: The science of evolution. Darwin ; Origin and beyond ; Time and life ; The pattern of life ; What are fossils? ; The variety of fossils ; Reconstructing the past ; Evolution today; title: The story of evolution : one hundred illustrated site reconstructions; title: The trees of life; title: Site gazetteer; title: Species listing.