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...
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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