Lost Animals
The story of extinct, endangered and rediscovered species
$69.04
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2021
Summary
Documenting the species that have emerged, disappeared, and been reborn over the millennia since the Cambrian Explosion, Lost Animals is the story of life on Earth.
Over 520 million years ago, all the major animal groups—molluscs, worms, crustaceans, vertebrates—appear in the fossil record in what is, geologically speaking, the blink of an eye. As well as the animals we’re familiar with today, evolution also experimented with now-obsolete body forms. Once, the world was a bla…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787394506 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787394506 |
| Author: | John Whitfield |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Welbeck |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.54kg |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 248mm x 288mm |
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John Whitfield
John Whitfield has a PhD in zoology from the University of Cambridge. In a 20-year career as a science journalist, he has written articles for Science, Scientific American, New Scientist, Slate and the London Review of Books. He has worked for six years at the journal Nature covering topics on evolution, ecology and conservation. John is the author of two popular science books, People Will Talk: The Surprising Science of Reputation and In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy and the Unity of Nature.
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