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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

by Richard Fortey

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With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed "Life, " offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrativeof the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.

Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago. As bewilderingly diverse then as the beetle is today, theysurvived in the arctic or the tropics, were spiky or smooth, were large as lobsters or small as fleas. And because they flourished for three hundred million years, they can be used to glimpse a less evolved world ofancient continents and vanished oceans. Erudite and entertaining, this book is a uniquely exuberant homage to a fabulously singular species.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780375706219
Author:
Fortey, Richard
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Author:
Richard Fortey
Location:
New York
Subject:
Evolution
Subject:
Fossils
Subject:
Trilobites
Subject:
Life Sciences - Evolution
Subject:
SCIENCE / Life Sciences/Evolution
Subject:
Nature - Fossils
Subject:
Science-Paleontology
Subject:
Biology-Evolution
Subject:
Geology-Paleontology
Copyright:
2000
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Vintage
Series Volume:
419
Publication Date:
20011131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
8.03x5.14x.69 in. .66 lbs.
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