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Evolution : a visual record
- Title
- Evolution : a visual record / photographs by Robert Clark ; foreword by David Quammen ; text by Joseph Wallace.
- Author
- Clark, Robert, 1961-
- Publication
- London ; New York, NY : Phaidon Press, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QH367 .C53 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 239 pages : colour illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting to everyone. Evolution: A Visual Record transports readers from the near-mystical (human ancestors) to the historic (the famous 'finches' Darwin collected on the Galápagos Islands that spurred his theory); the recently understood (the link between dinosaurs and modern birds) to the simply astonishing.--
- Subject
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
- Darwin, Charles
- Clark, Robert 1961-
- Evolution (Biology) > History
- Evolution (Biology) > Pictorial works
- Life > Origin
- Natural history > Pictorial works
- Illustrated works
- History
- Pictorial works
- Evolution (Biology)
- Natural history
- Evolution
- Evolution Motiv
- Naturfotografie
- Pflanzen Motiv
- Tiere Motiv
- Genre/Form
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works.
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- These views of life / David Quammen -- Darwin, Wallace, and the birth of a theory / Joseph Wallace -- Ancient history -- Birds : selection, natural and artificial -- Diversity in cold blood -- Plants : evolution blooms -- Insects : adaptation in abundance -- Mammals : a web of connection -- Human origins -- The evolution of evolution.
- ISBN
- 9780714871189
- 0714871184
- LCCN
- 2016499209
- OCLC
- ocn960468206
- 960468206
- SCSB-1872173
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library