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Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
This book shows how evolution is a concept that organizes, explains, and predicts a multitude of unconnected facts and phenomena. Adaptation plays a role not only in the development of new species but in the development of human civilization. The author presents a new argument for evolution's broader importance.--[book jacket]
43) Life: the first four billion years : the story of life from the big bang to the evolution of humans
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Before humans took their first steps, there were billions of years of vibrant and varied life-forms on Earth. Discover the story of our planet during this time, from the formation of the universe to the first mammals and all the incredible life that flourished in between. Covering ice ages and fossils, the first life in the sea and on land, the time of the dinosaurs, and the rise of mammals, Martin Jenkins navigates through millennia of prehistory...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Inquisitive young readers will delight in wiggling, chomping, squeaking, and hooting their way through our evolutionary family tree in this charming tale that answers one of life's biggest questions: where do we come from?"--
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling new account of human origins, as told by the paleontologist who led the most groundbreaking dig in recent history.-- Somewhere west of Munich, Madelaine Böhme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they imagined: the fossilized bones of Danuvius guggenmosi ignite a global media frenzy. This ancient ancestor defies our knowledge of human history--his nearly twelve-million-year-old...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In The Romance of Reality, cognitive neuroscientist Bobby Azarian explains the science behind this new view of reality and explores what it means for all of us. In engaging, accessible prose, Azarian outlines the fundamental misunderstanding of thermodynamics at the heart of the old assumptions about the universe's evolution, and shows us the evidence that suggests that the universe is a "self-organizing" system, one that is moving toward increasing...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Revealing the mechanics of evolutionary theory, the scientist, engineer, and inventor presents a compelling argument for the scientific unviability of creationism and insists that creationism's place in the science classroom is harmful to the future of the greater world.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Charles Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," 530 million years ago many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin's Doubt Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal life -- a mystery that has intensified, not only because...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of "urban ecologists" studying how our manmade environments are accelerating and changing the evolution of the animals and plants around us. In Darwin Comes to Town, he takes us around the world for an up-close look at just how stunningly flexible and swift-moving natural selection can be. With human populations growing, we're having an increasing impact on global ecosystems, and nowhere do these impacts...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Arnold wishes he had more information for his family tree, Ms. Frizzle revs up the Magic School Bus and the class zooms back to prehistoric times. First stop: 3.5 billion years ago! There aren't any people around to ask for directions. Luckily Ms. Frizzle has a plan, and the class is right there to watch simple cells become sponges and then fish and dinosaurs, then mammals and early primates and, eventually, modern humans. It's the longest class...
Author
Series
Thinker's library volume no. 7
Publisher
Distributed in the USA by National Book Network
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
If an alien visitor were to collect ten souvenir life forms to represent life on earth, which would they be? This is the thought-provoking premise of Marianne Taylor's The Story of Life in 10 and a Half Species. Each life forms explains a key aspect about life on Earth. From the sponge that seems to be a plant but is really an animal to the almost extinct soft-shelled turtle deemed extremely unique and therefore extremely precious, these examples...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This humorous informational picture book about the history of the universe answers some of the biggest questions humans have ever asked - like how the universe began and where we came from. Young readers will learn all about the Big Bang theory, how our solar system and planet were formed, how life began in the oceans and moved to land, what happened to the dinosaurs and how humans evolved from apes to explore, build communities all over the world...and...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Graceful, succinct prose and engaging illustrations trace the evolution of life on Earth out of the blue and back again. Clear and inviting nonfiction prose, vetted by scientiststogether with lively illustrations and a time linenarrate how life on Earth emerged out of the blue.
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