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Author(s): Richard Cowen
ISBN(s): 9781118510957, 111851095X
Edition: 5
File Details: PDF, 87.91 MB
Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 111851095X

ISBN 13: 9781118510957

Author: Richard Cowen

This text is designed for students and anyone else with an interest in the history of life on our planet. The author describes the biological evolution of Earth&;s organisms, and reconstructs their adaptations to the life they led, and the ecology and environment in which they functioned. On the grand scale, Earth is a constantly changing planet, continually presenting organisms with challenges. Changing geography, climate, atmosphere, oceanic and land environments set a stage in which organisms interact with their environments and one another, with evolutionary change an inevitable result. The organisms themselves in turn can change global environments: oxygen in our atmosphere is all produced by photosynthesis, for example. The interplay between a changing Earth and its evolving organisms is the underlying theme of the book.
 
The book has a dedicated website which explores additional enriching information and discussion, and provides or points to the art for the book and many other images useful for teaching. See: www.wiley.com/go/cowen/historyoflife.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Origin of Life on Earth

Chapter 2: Earliest Life on Earth

Chapter 3: Sex and Nuclei: Eukaryotes

Chapter 4: The Evolution of Metazoans

Chapter 5: The Metazoan Radiation

Chapter 6: Changing Life in a Changing World

Chapter 7: The Early Vertebrates

Chapter 8: Leaving the Water

Chapter 9: Tetrapods and Amniotes

Chapter 10: Early Amniotes and Thermoregulation

Chapter 11: The Triassic Takeover

Chapter 12: Dinosaurs

Chapter 13: The Evolution of Flight

Chapter 14: The Modernization of Land and Sea

Chapter 15: The Origin of Mammals

Chapter 16: The End of the Dinosaurs

Chapter 17: Cenozoic Mammals

Chapter 18: Geography and Evolution

Chapter 19: Primates

Chapter 20: Evolving Toward Humans

Chapter 21: Life in the Ice Age

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