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Author : Steve Parker
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 9781474727051
A Brief Illustrated History of Life on Earth charts the evolution of living species all the way from 2.5 billion years ago, through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and right through to today.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould,Peter Andrews
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : 0091777496
Presenting the compelling story of life on earth, this book brings together the latest findings in evolutionary science. The drawings include reconstructions of creatures long extinct, seen in their own habitat. The contributors include Peter Andrews, a leading palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum; Michael Benton, a leading expert on mammal evolution; Christopher Stringer, an expert on mammal evolution and Jack Sepkoski, who teaches and researches early life forms at Chicago.
Author : Richard Fortey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307761187
By one of Britain's most gifted scientists: a magnificently daring and compulsively readable account of life on Earth (from the "big bang" to the advent of man), based entirely on the most original of all sources--the evidence of fossils. With excitement and driving intelligence, Richard Fortey guides us from the barren globe spinning in space, through the very earliest signs of life in the sulphurous hot springs and volcanic vents of the young planet, the appearance of cells, the slow creation of an atmosphere and the evolution of myriad forms of plants and animals that could then be sustained, including the magnificent era of the dinosaurs, and on to the last moment before the debut of Homo sapiens. Ranging across multiple scientific disciplines, explicating in wonderfully clear and refreshing prose their findings and arguments--about the origins of life, the causes of species extinctions and the first appearance of man--Fortey weaves this history out of the most delicate traceries left in rock, stone and earth. He also explains how, on each aspect of nature and life, scientists have reached the understanding we have today, who made the key discoveries, who their opponents were and why certain ideas won. Brimful of wit, fascinating personal experience and high scholarship, this book may well be our best introduction yet to the complex history of life on Earth. A Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection With 32 pages of photographs
Author : Steve Parker,David West
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781474727112
Author : Clémence Dupont
Publisher : Prestel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Adaptation (Biology)
ISBN : 3791373730
The story of life on earth unfolds in dramatic fashion in this amazing concertina picture book that takes readers from 4.6 billion years ago to the present day. Fully expanded to 8 meters (26 feet), this spectacular visual timeline is a very impressive panorama that reveals evolution in all its glory. Full color.
Author : Henry Gee
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781250276667
The Royal Society's Science Book of the Year "[A]n exuberant romp through evolution, like a modern-day Willy Wonka of genetic space. Gee’s grand tour enthusiastically details the narrative underlying life’s erratic and often whimsical exploration of biological form and function.” —Adrian Woolfson, The Washington Post In the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester—An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place—in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to form membrane-bound bubbles that were mostly-faithful copies of their parents—a foamy lather of soap-bubble cells standing as tiny clenched fists, defiant against the lifeless world. Life on this planet has continued in much the same way for millennia, adapting to literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter and thriving, from these humblest beginnings to the thrilling and unlikely story of ourselves. In A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, Henry Gee zips through the last 4.6 billion years with infectious enthusiasm and intellectual rigor. Drawing on the very latest scientific understanding and writing in a clear, accessible style, he tells an enlightening tale of survival and persistence that illuminates the delicate balance within which life has always existed.
Author : Lynn Margulis,Karlene V. Schwartz
Publisher : Henry Holt
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biology
ISBN : 0716730278
An all-inclusive catalogue of the world's living diversity, Five Kingdoms defines and describes the major divisions, or phyla, of nature's five great kingdoms - bacteria, protoctists, animals, fungi, and plants - using a modern classification scheme that is consistent with both the fossil record and molecular data. Generously illustrated and remarkably easy to follow, it not only allows readers to sample the full range of life forms inhabiting our planet but to familiarize themselves with the taxonomic theories by which all organisms' origins and distinctive characteristics are traced and classified.
Author : David Bainbridge
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691235929
An illustrated look at the art and science of paleontology from its origins to today Humans have been stumbling upon the petrified remains of ancient animals since prehistoric times, leading to tales of giant dogs, deadly dragons, tree gods, sea serpents, and all manner of strange and marvelous creatures. In this richly illustrated book, David Bainbridge recounts how legends like these gradually gave rise to the modern science of paleontology, and how this pioneering discipline has reshaped our view of the natural world. Bainbridge takes readers from ancient Greece to the eighteenth century, when paleontology began to coalesce into the scientific field we know today, and discusses how contemporary paleontologists use cutting-edge technologies to flesh out the discoveries of past and present. He brings to life the stories and people behind some of the greatest fossil finds of all time, and explains how paleontology has long straddled the spheres of science and art. Bainbridge also looks to the future of the discipline, discussing how the rapid recovery of DNA and other genetic material from the fossil record promises to revolutionize our understanding of the origins and evolution of ancient life. This panoramic book brings together stunning illustrations ranging from early sketches and engravings to eye-popping paleoart and high-tech computer reconstructions.
Author : Jan Kozák,Roger M. W. Musson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783030214265
This beautiful art book portrays the forces of nature through the main elements of Earth, Water, Air, Fire. It is composed from a large selection of unique images of a wide variety of sources, mostly private collections. It is a highly illustrated book, containing reproductions of rare engravings, maps both old and new, sketches, and diagrams. The book is a sequel to ‘The Illustrated History of Natural Disasters’, published in 2010. While the first book provided a detailed look into two main kinds of natural disasters (of seismic and volcanic character), this volume presents natural disasters of all kinds: geophysical, hydrological, climatological and biological. The book is divided into three parts: the first part introduces the leading question as to whether the elements should be regarded as constructive, for giving origin to life on Earth, or destructive given the impact of natural disasters to society throughout history; the second illustrates the positive effects of nature’s elements; and the third part depicts and contextualizes the history of natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcano eruptions, landslides, avalanches, draughts, storms, fires, among others.
Author : Douglas Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39076002865959
"Evolution" recreates the 3.5 billion-year story of life on Earth in stunning detail through vivid full-color illustrations and graphics, the latest scientific information, and hundreds of photographs--a beautifully detailed panorama of communities from microbes to humankind that have lived on the planet's continents and in its oceans.
Author : Tom Jackson
Publisher : 100 Ponderables
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 1627950931
Hardcover with removable fold-out Timeline
Author : Editors of Time Magazine
Publisher : Time
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1603200320
Looks at the Planet Earth with numerous color illustrations and accompanying text, with separate sections examining the atmosphere, pedosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and geosphere.
Author : William K. Hartmann,Ron Miller
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : UOM:49015001295535
Paintings enhance the text through a chronicle of our planet--its origin, its development, and its future.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393035573
An illustrated natural history of the earth and its denizens combines the paintings, drawings, and computer-generated images with a chronicle of the world's variegated organisms and species
Author : William Lindsay
Publisher : DK Children
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 0789458683
Explores the origins of life on earth, from the first algae to the first humans.