Displaying 1 of 1 2009 Format: Book Author: Gamlin, Linda. Title: Evolution / written by Linda Gamlin. Edition: Rev. ed. Publisher, Date: London ; New York : Dorling Kindersley ; Boston : Distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co., 2009, ©1993. Description: 72 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 29 cm + 1 clip art CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) + 1 wall chart. data file Summary: Text about and photography of experiments, animals, plants, bones, and fossils reveal the ideas and discoveries that have changed our understanding of the natural world and how life began. Series: DK eyewitness books DK eyewitness books. Subjects: Evolution (Biology) -- Juvenile literature. Other Title: Eyewitness evolution Notes: Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (page 68) and index. 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 -- The 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 -- index. Web Site: Publisher description LCCN: 2010501910 ISBN: 9781405337779 140533777X 9780756650285 0756650283 9780756650292 0756650291 Other Number: 326860898 System Availability: 3 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 3 Control Number: 265164 # Local items in: 3 # System items in: 3 Call Number: j 576.8 Gamlin Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
