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Richard A. Fortey y Richard Fortey · Laetoli, 2006
Looks at the extinct arthropods that dominated the oceans for three hundred million years and left an extensive fossil record, and uses what is known about the creatures to demonstrate the mechanisms of evolution.
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Universitario · En inglés
S. Osawa, Z.-H. Su y otros
Springer, 2004
Carabid ground beetles, sometimes called "walking jewels", are among the most thoroughly investigated insects in the world. This book presents the results of molecular phylogenetic analyses of 2000 specimens, including 350 species and that cover more than 90% of the known genera, from 500 localities in 35 countries.…
Divulgación · En inglés
Neil Shubin
Vintage Books, 2009
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources:…
Universitario · En inglés
Charles Darwin
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007
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Universitario · En inglés
Tom Fenchel
Oxford University Press, USA, 2003
Origin and Early Evolution of Life draws on evidence from molecular genetics, the structure and function of extant organisms, and geology. It covers the period from about 4 billion years ago, when life is thought to have originated, to about 600 million years ago when multicellular organisms first arose. There are…
Universitario · En inglés
Charles Darwin
Hard Press, 2006
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