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050 00 $aQL121$b.E579 2001
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100 1 $aEllis, Richard,$d1938-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80090636
245 10 $aAquagenesis :$bthe origin and evolution of life in the sea /$cRichard Ellis ; with illustrations by the author.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2001.
300 $axiv, 304 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-292) and index.
505 00 $tEarly Days.$tThe Origin of Life in the Vents.$tWater, Water Everywhere.$tHere We Come, Ready or Not ... --$tFrom Fossil to Squid.$tThe Garden of the Ediacara.$tWonders of the Burgess Shale.$tThe Cambrian Explosion.$tWhat Happened to the Trilobites?$t"Living Fossils"$tHere Come the Mollusks.$tBrachiopods.$tCephalopods --$tThe Vertebrates.$tWhat Did it Mean to have a Backbone?$tThe Jawless Fishes.$tThe Lungfishes.$tThe Coelacanths.$tPisces Triumphant.$tThe Evolution of Bioluminescence.$tSharks, Etc.$tLand Ho! --$tReturn to the Sea.$tMarine Reptiles.$tEncased in Armor Plate.$tThe Sea Snakes.$tThe Crocodilians.$tBirds that Swim --$tMarine Mammals.$tThe Sea Cows.$tThe Sea Weasels.$tFlippers for Feet.$tThe Desmostylians.$tThe Cetaceans.$tThe Living Whales --$tEverybody Back into the Water.$tThe Aquatic Ape.$tThe End of the Beginning.
520 1 $a"Ellis's detailed drawings bring animals to life that have not been seen for 400 million years, some that rival science fiction monsters for sheer weirdness. Early crocodiles and turtles were three times larger than they are today: and there was once a manatee that was 30 feet long and had no bones below the elbow.
520 8 $aThere were the trilobites, jointed animals with complex eyes that dominated the seas for 200 million years and then completely disappeared: sharks with teeth on their backs: and others, 50 feet long, with teeth the size of your hand.".
520 8 $a"Fifty million years ago, some land-dwelling mammals reentered the water and began the process of modification that turned them into whales. It was the most astonishing transformation in mammalian history. In Aquagenesis, you will track these changes and meet the paleontologists who have found the links between the terrestrial mammals and the first semiaquatic whales - creatures that probably looked like hyenas, huge shrews, or fat otters.
520 8 $aToday the only animal on earth that regularly walk in an upright, two-legged stance are penguins and people. It is possible that our size, shape, stride, intelligence, and hair (or lack thereof) can also be explained by the provocative theory of the aquatic ape."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMarine animals$xEvolution.
650 0 $aLife$xOrigin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076809
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