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Prehistoric life : [the definitive visual history of life on earth] / [authors, Douglas Palmer ... et al. ; consultants, Simon Lamb ... et al. ; senior editors, Angeles Gavira Guerrero, Peter Frances ; project editors, Cressida Malins ... et al. ; editors, Jamie Ambrose ... et al.].

1st American ed.

New York : DK Pub., 2009.

512 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 31 cm.

With an extensive catalog at its heart, "Prehistoric Life" profiles hundreds of fascinating species in incredible detail; features breathtaking, state-of-the-art images; explores the concept of geological time; and explains the classification of species and how the evidence for their evolution is preserved and can be deciphered.

Fossils.

Fossils -- Pictorial works.

Animals, Fossil.

Animals, Fossil -- Pictorial works.

Plants, Fossil.

Plants, Fossil -- Pictorial works.

Fossil hominids.

Fossil hominids -- Pictorial works.

Paleobiology.

Earth (Planet) -- Origin.

Earth (Planet) -- Origin -- Pictorial works.

Palmer, Douglas.

Lamb, Simon.

Gavira Guerrero, Angeles.

Frances, Peter.

Malins, Cressida.

Ambrose, Jamie.

DK Publishing, Inc.

DK prehistoric life.

Dorling Kindersley prehistoric life.

At head of title: DK.

Subtitle from cover.

Includes index.

Young earth. Exploring earth's past ; The origin of the earth ; The first 500 million years ; Plate tectonics ; Changing climates ; Life and evolution ; Classification ; Mass extinctions ; Types of fossils ; Information in the fossil record ; Key fossil sites ; The geological timescale -- Life on earth. Archean ; Proterozoic ; Cambrian ; Ordovician ; Silurian ; Devonian ; Carboniferous ; Permian ; Triassic ; Jurassic ; Cretaceous ; Paleogene ; Neogene ; Quaternary -- The rise of the humans. Human relatives ; Human ancestors ; Origins of modern humans ; Out of Africa ; European hunter gatherers ; Paleolithic cave art ; After the ice.

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