Billions of years, amazing changes
Subtitle: the story of evolution
By: Laurence Pringle ; illustrations by Steve Jenkins ; with a foreword by Jerry A. Coyne
Contributors: Jenkins, Steve, 1952-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Boyds Mills
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Honesdale, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9781590787236
Subjects: Dinosaurs; Evolution (Biology); Animals; Evolution; Juvenile literature
Other titles: Story of evolution
Description: Traces the history of man's discoveries about evolution, covering both the mechanisms of evolution and examples of natural selection--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-98) and index.
Table of contents: title: Imagine; title: Evidence from the earth; title: How fossils form; title: Layers of rock, layers of past life; title: The adventures and discoveries of Charles Darwin; title: Evolution; title: Variation; title: Nature's bounty; title: Competition; title: Natural selection; title: After Darwin; title: Telling time; title: Genetics; title: More and more fossils; title: "Missing links" found; title: Moving continents; title: On faraway islands; title: Coevolution; title: Origin of species; title: Evolution, going on right now.