Die Geschichte des Lebens: Eine sehr kurze Einführung

Author/Contributor(s):	Benton, Michael J
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	12/15/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Here is the extraordinary story of the unfolding of life on Earth, told by Michael J. Benton, a world-renowned authority on biodiversity. Ranging over four billion years, Benton weaves together the latest findings on fossils, earth history, evolutionary biology, and many other fields to highlight the great leaps that enabled life to evolve from microbe to human--big breakthroughs that made whole new ways of life possible--including cell division and multicellularity, hard skeletons, the move to land, the origin of forests, the move to the air. He describes the mass extinctions and he sheds light on the origins of human beings.