Evolution, 2nd Edition
What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
$59.35
- Hardcover
456 pages
- Release Date
22 August 2017
Summary
Donald R. Prothero’s Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book’s widespread adoption in courses that teach the nature and value of fossil evidence for evolution. Evolution tackles systematics and cladistics, rock dating, neo-Darwinism, and macroevolution. It includes extensive coverage of the primordial soup, invertebrate transi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780231180641 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0231180640 |
| Author: | Donald R. Prothero, Carl Buell |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Imprint: | Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 22 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.00kg |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 261mm x 178mm |
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Critics Review
This second edition will be welcome in the libraries of scholars, teachers, and general readers who stand up for sound science in the post-truth era.
If you’re one of these people who likes to read Dawkins, Gould and Darwin, I would highly recommend this book. If you doubted that evolution was true before, and then you looked at this book, I don’t see how you could possibly continue to question it. – Jerry Coyne, author of Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
About The Author
Donald R. Prothero
Donald R. Prothero has taught college paleontology and geology for almost four decades at the California Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Occidental College, Vassar College, and Knox College. He is adjunct professor of geological sciences at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, adjunct professor of astronomy and earth sciences at Mt. San Antonio College, and research associate in vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. His Columbia University Press books include The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution (2015) and Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids (2013).
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