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100 1 $aFortey, Richard A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82062691
245 10 $aLife :$ba natural history of the first four billion years of life on earth /$cRichard Fortey.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c1998.
300 $axiii, 346 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 331-332) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Everlasting Sea --$g2.$tDust of Life --$g3.$tCells, Tissues, Bodies --$g4.$tMy Animals and Other Families --$g5.$tMarine Riches --$g6.$tLandwards --$g7.$tSilent Forests, Crowded Oceans --$g8.$tThe Great Continent --$g9.$tMonstrous and Modest --$g10.$tTheories of the End --$g11.$tSuckling Success --$g12.$tHumanity --$g13.$tWheels of Chance.
520 $aRichard Fortey guides us from the barren globe spinning in space, through the very earliest signs of life in the sulphurous hot springs and volcanic vents of the young planet, the appearance of cells, the slow creation of an atmosphere and the evolution of myriad forms of plants and animals that could then be sustained, including the magnificent era of the dinosaurs, and on to the last moment before the debut of Homo sapiens.
520 8 $aFortey weaves this history out of the most delicate traceries left in rock, stone and earth. He also explains how, on each aspect of nature and life, scientists have reached the understanding we have today, who made the key discoveries, who their opponents were and why certain ideas won.
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004042
650 0 $aLife$xOrigin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076809
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