Beasts of Eden
Subtitle: walking whales, dawn horses, and other enigmas of mammal evolution
By: David Rains Wallace.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Mammals -- Evolution; Mammals, Fossil
Other titles: Walking whales, dawn horses, and other enigmas of mammal evolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-314) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. the fresco and the fossil; title: Pachyderms in the catacombs; title: Dr. Jekyll and the Stonesfield jaws; title: The origin of mammals; title: The noblest conquest; title: Terrible horns and heavy feet; title: Mr. Megatherium versus professor Mylodon; title: Fire beasts of the antipodes; title: Titans on parade; title: Five-toed horses and missing links; title: The invisible dawn man; title: A Bonaparte of beasts; title: Love and theory; title: Simpson's Cynodont-to-Smilodon synthesis; title: Shifting ground; title: Dissolving ancestries; title: Exploding faunas; title: The revenge of the shell hunters; title: Simpson redivivus; title: Winds thieves of the Kyzylkum; title: The serpent's offering; title: Anthropoid leapfrog; title: Epilogue: Cenozoic parks.