Wallace, Joseph E.
[VerfasserIn];
Clark, Robert
[FotografIn]
;
Quammen, David
[VerfasserIn eines Vorworts];
Wallace, Joseph
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]Phaidon Verlag GmbH
Beschreibung:
Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting to everyone. Evolution: A Visual Record transports readers from the near-mystical (human ancestors) to the historic (the famous 'finches' Darwin collected on the Galápagos Islands that spurred his theory); the recently understood (the link between dinosaurs and modern birds) to the simply astonishing.--
These views of life / David Quammen -- Darwin, Wallace, and the birth of a theory / Joseph Wallace -- Ancient history -- Birds : selection, natural and artificial -- Diversity in cold blood -- Plants : evolution blooms -- Insects : adaptation in abundance -- Mammals : a web of connection -- Human origins -- The evolution of evolution