Extinction and Evolution - What Fossils Reveal about the History of Life (Eldredge Niles)(Paperback / softback)

"A splendidly illustrated and thoughtfully constructed account of one of the greatest ideas ever conceived by the human mind -- evolution." --Donald C. Johanson, Founder of the Institute of Human Origins, and author of From Lucy to Language "Splendid photographs, vivid language and concise text: a great read." --Nature "The amount of evolutionary ground covered in the relatively short text, and the clarity with which it's laid out for the benefit of the reader, are exemplary." --Reports of the National Center for Science Education Extinction and Evolution recounts the research of paleontologist Niles Eldredge, whose discoveries overturned Charles Darwin's theory of evolution as a slow and inevitable process. In his 1859 treatise On the Origin of Species, Darwin posited that evolutionary changes happen very slowly over
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