Evolution [electronic resource]
Gamlin, Linda2013
Book
Abstract: From the biological code that links all living things to what happened during the Ice Age; let your child trace the discoveries that explore and explain the amazing diversity of life on Earth.
Main title:
Evolution [electronic resource] / written by Linda Gamlin.
Work:
Edition:
Rev. ed.
Imprint:
New York [N.Y.] : DK Pub., 2009 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2013.)
Collation:
1 online resource (35 entries) : 346 images, digital files.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes Websites.Description based on title page of print version.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Linking notes:
Print version: 72 p. : ill. (some col.)
Contents:
Creation stories -- Fossils and fairy tales -- Victims of the flood -- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck -- Extinct animals -- A series of catastrophes -- Dinosaur frenzy -- Charles Darwin -- Living evidence -- Animal and plant distribution -- Fossil evidence -- How old is Earth? -- Artificial selection -- Variation and inheritance -- The struggle for existence -- Natural selection -- Understanding adaptation -- How new species are formed -- Living intermediates -- Fossil intermediates -- Jumps and gaps -- Ladders and branches -- Gregor Mendel -- Solving the DNA puzzle -- Molecular evidence -- The origin of life -- Science and belief -- History of life -- Up to the present -- Classifying life -- Discoveries in Evolution -- Find out more -- Glossary.
Access restrictions:
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
ISBN:
9780756650292 (ALB)9780756650285 (HC)9781782682639 (online)
Dewey class:
576.8
LC class:
QH367.1
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
502375
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