Written in Stone: The Hidden Secrets of Fossils and the Story of Life on Earth

Written in Stone: The Hidden Secrets of Fossils and the Story of Life on Earth image
ISBN-10:

184831342X

ISBN-13:

9781848313422

Author(s): Switek, Brian
Released: Jan 01, 2012
Publisher: Icon Books
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
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Description:

The first book on the hunt for evolution's 'missing links' over the last three decades - and what palaeontologists' findings mean for our place on earth. Darwin's theory was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of organisms were nowhere to be found. By the 1970s this absence of 'transitional fossils' was hotly debated. However, during the past three decades fossils of walking whales from Pakistan, feathered dinosaurs from China, and many more bizarre creatures have all been unearthed. WRITTEN IN STONE is the first account of the remarkable discovery of these gap fossils and of the new stories they tell about the evolution of life.












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