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Author Fortey, Richard A.

Title Survivors : the animals and plants that time has left behind / Richard Fortey
Published London, England : HarperPress, 2011

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Description xv, 336 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Old Horseshoes -- 2.The Search for the Velvet Worm -- 3.Slimy Mounds -- 4.Life in Hot Water -- 5.An Inveterate Bunch -- 6.Greenery -- 7.Of Fishes and Hellbenders -- 8.Heat in the Blood -- 9.Islands, Ice -- 10.Survivors Against the Odds
Summary An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe, in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures which have survived from earlier times and whose stories speak to us of seminal events in the history of life
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-321) and index
Subject Life -- Origin.
Evolution (Biology)
Fossils.
Life -- Origin.
Living fossils.
Paleontology -- Research -- Case studies.
Evolutionary paleobiology.
Paleontology.
SUBJECT Earth (Planet) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040427 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Genre/Form Case studies.
LC no. 2011535341
ISBN 9780007209866
Other Titles Animals and plants that time has left behind
Horseshoe crabs and velvet worms