Research Catalog
History of life
- Title
- History of life / Richard Cowen.
- Author
- Cowen, Richard, 1940-
- Publication
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Science, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QE711.2 .C68 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 432 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The origin of life -- Earth's earliest life -- Sex and nuclei : eukaryotes -- The evolution of animals -- Life in a changing world -- Extinction -- The early vertebrates -- Leaving the water -- Amphibians and reptiles -- Reptiles and thermoregulation -- The triassic takeover -- Dinosaurs -- Warm-blooded dinosaurs? -- The evolution of flight -- The origin of mammals -- Marine reptiles -- Why flowers are beautiful -- The end of the dinosaurs -- Cenozoic mammals : origins, guilds and trends -- Geography and evolution -- Primates -- Evolving towrds humans -- The ice age -- Humans and the ice age.
- ISBN
- 0632044446
- 9780632044443
- LCCN
- 99016542
- OCLC
- ocm41572551
- 41572551
- SCSB-865934
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library