Richard Fortey: Survivors | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780007209873 | Survivors | The Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind | Fortey

Autor: 9780007209873 | Survivors | The Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind | Fortey

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An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe, in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures which have survived from earlier times and whose stories speak to us of seminal events in the history of life. On a beach in Delaware where the horseshoe crab shuffles its way through a violent romance, we catch a glimpse of life 450 million years ago, shortly after it diversified on the ocean floor. Along a stretch of Australian coastline, we bear witness to the sights and sounds that would have greeted a Precambrian dawn. Finally, in the dense rainforests of New Zealand, we marvel at a living fossil which has survived unchanged since before the dissolution of the Gondwana supercontinent. Written with sparkle and gusto, this wonderfully engrossing exploration of the world¿s oldest flora and fauna brilliantly combines the best science writing about the origins of life with an explorer¿s sense of adventure and a poet¿s wonder at the natural world.

Über den Autor

Richard Fortey retired from his position as senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in 2006. He is the author of several books, including 'Fossils: A Key to the Past', 'The Hidden Landscape' which won The Natural World Book of the Year in 1993, 'Life: An Unauthorised Biography', 'Trilobite!' and 'The Earth: An Intimate History'. He has been elected to be President of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Grundlagen
Genre:	Biologie , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	400 S.
ISBN-13:	9780007209873
ISBN-10:	0007209878
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Fortey, Richard
Auflage:	UK edition
Hersteller:	HarperCollins Publishers
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	198 x 128 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Richard Fortey
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.09.2012
Gewicht:	0,289 kg