Description
This engaging work traces two extraordinary evolutionary transformations: the emergence of four-limbed vertebrates from ancient fish and the return of land-dwelling mammals to the sea as whales. Drawing on fossil discoveries, anatomy, and cutting-edge research, it reveals how creatures acquired fingers, legs, lungs, and other adaptations that reshaped life on Earth. Along the way, it explores evolution as an inventive, contingent process marked by both adaptation and profound change. Clear, vivid, and scientifically rich, the book offers a compelling new perspective on the deep history of life and humanity’s place within it.
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paperback
Free Press
Published Sep 8, 1999
288 pages
ISBN: 9780684856230
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First Published
1998
Language
eng
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