Fortey Richard Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind 9780307275530

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Автор: Fortey Richard
Название: Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
Перевод названия: Ричард Форти: Мечехвосты и бархатные черви. История животных и растений, которые не дожили до наших дней
ISBN: 9780307275530
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0307275531
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.37 кг.
Дата издания: 11.12.2012
Язык: English
Размер: 204 x 132 x 18
Поставляется из: США
Описание: From one of the worlds leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite , Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of lifes history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, throughout time. Evolution, it seems, has not completely obliterated its tracks as more advanced organisms have evolved; the history of life on earth is far older--and odder--than many of us realize.

Scattered across the globe, these remarkable plants and animals continue to mark seminal events in geological time. From a moonlit beach in Delaware, where the hardy horseshoe crab shuffles its way to a frenzy of mass mating just as it did 450 million years ago, to the dense rainforests of New Zealand, where the elusive, unprepossessing velvet worm has burrowed deep into rotting timber since before the breakup of the ancient supercontinent, to a stretch of Australian coastline with stromatolite formations that bear witness to the Precambrian dawn, the existence of these survivors offers us a tantalizing glimpse of pivotal points in evolutionary history. These are not living fossils but rather a handful of tenacious creatures of days long gone.

Written in buoyant, sparkling prose, Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms is a marvelously captivating exploration of the worlds old-timers combining the very best of science writing with an explorers sense of adventure and wonder.

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind, Fortey Richard