PREHISTORIC LIFE : The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth

ATTRADINMS, Ina ; GUERRERO, AngeleS G. & FRANCIS , Peter Editors

ISBN 10: 075669910X / ISBN 13: 9780756699109

Editore: Dorling Kindersley, Incorporated, New York , New York, 2012

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Large and weighty soft cover with yellow print on spine and yellow and brown on front cove. Mottled grey background with yellow fossil fish also on cover. One very soft spine crease, Too big to be tight but very sound and unmarked. 572 pages including index. Ships as 6 Lbs so S& H will be adjusted. Codice articolo 016958

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Titolo: PREHISTORIC LIFE : The Definitive Visual ...

Casa editrice: Dorling Kindersley, Incorporated, New York , New York

Data di pubblicazione: 2012

Legatura: Soft cover

Illustratore: ILLUSTRATED

Condizione: Very Good

Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket

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With an extensive catalog at its heart, Prehistoric Life profiles hundreds of fascinating species in incredible detail. The story starts in earnest 3.8 billion years ago, with the earliest-known form of life on Earth, a bacteria that still exists today, and journeys through action-packed millennia, charting the appearance of new life forms as well as devastating extinction events. Of course, the ever-popular and endlessly intriguing dinosaurs feature large, but Prehistoric Life gives you the whole picture, and the plants, invertebrates, amphibians, birds, reptiles, and mammals that are the ancestors of today's species also populate its pages, making this book unprecedented in its coverage of prehistory. Specially commissioned artworks use cutting-edge technology to render species in breathtakingly realistic fashion, with astonishing images of prehistoric remains, such as skeletons and fossils, to complete the story. To put all the evidence in context, the concept of geological time is explored, as is the classification of species and how the evidence for their evolution is preserved and can be deciphered.

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