Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution - Hardcover

Fortey, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375406255 ISBN 13: 9780375406256

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

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Book by Fortey Richard

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Turning the clock back several billion years, the author introduces readers the first denizens of planet earth--crustaceans called trilobite that ruled the oceans for three hundred million years. 30,000 first printing.

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t, I found a trilobite. The rock simply parted around the animal, like some sort of revelation. I was left holding two pieces of rock--surely what I held was the textbook come alive. The long thin eyes of the trilobite regarded me and I returned the gaze. More compelling than any pair of blue eyes, there was a shiver of recognition across 500 million years."

From the author of Life comes the fascinating story of the beginnings of life on our planet as seen by its very first creatures, trilobites--the exotic, crustacean-like animals that dominated the seas for 300 million years.
Richard Fortey fell in love with trilobites as a fourteen-year-old when he held his first fossil in his hand. In Trilobite!, he draws on a lifetime of study of these creatures to unravel the history of life on earth from their point of view. Trilobites saw continents move, mountain chains grow and erode; they survived ice ages and volcanic eruptions, constantly evolving and exquisitely adapting to their

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375406255
• ISBN 13: 9780375406256
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284