AuthorEllis, Richard
TitleAquagenesis : the origin and evolution of life in the sea / Richard Ellis
Imprint New YorK : Viking, c2001
Descript vii, 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

CONTENT

Origin of life in the vents -- Garden of the ediacara 00 Wonders of the burgess shale -- Cambrian explosion -- Living fossils -- Here come the mollusks -- Brachiopods -- Cephalopods -- Jawless fishes -- Lungfishes -- Coelacanths -- Pisces triumphant -- Evolution of bioluminescence -- Sharks -- Marine reptiles -- Encased in armor plate -- Sea snakes -- Crocodilians -- Birds that swim -- Sea cows -- Sea weasels -- Flippers for feet -- Desmostylians -- Cetaceans -- Living whales -- Aquatic ape


SUBJECT

  1. Marine animals -- Evolution
  2. Life -- Origin

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