David Rains Wallace

Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution

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Beasts of Eden is a wondrous journey through the vanished worlds of extinct mammals. Exciting, insightful, and accurate, it is everything that good science writing should be.-Tim Flannery, author of The Eternal Frontier A compelling scientific adventure story?. Peopled with colorful and larger-than-life characters, this account of the history of paleontology dramatically demonstrates how the interactions between crude but charismatic fossil seekers, ascetic intellectuals, temperamental artists, and many others have forever changed the ways in which we view life's prehistoric beginnings.-Ian Tattersall, author of The Monkey in the Mirror Beast… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-520-24684-3
EAN: 9780520246843
Produktnummer: 1595441
Verlag: Univ Of California Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 340 S.
Masse: H22.1 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.3 cm 513 g
Gewicht: 513

Über den Autor

David Rains Wallace is the author of fifteen books, including The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution (Twentieth Anniversary Edition, California, 2003), winner of the John Burroughs Medal; The Bonehunter's Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age (1999); and The Monkey's Bridge: Mysteries of Evolution in Central America (1997).