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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Leonardo da Vinci once mused that "we know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot, " an observation that is as apt today as it was five hundred years ago. The biological world under our toes is often unexplored and unappreciated, yet it teems with life. In one square meter of earth, there lives trillions of bacteria, millions of nematodes, hundreds of thousands of mites, thousands of insects and worms, and hundreds...
49) Lots of spots
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Series
Lexile measure
AD 800L
Language
English
Description
Introduces the different types of camouflage animals use to help blend in with their surroundings, including spots on flounder, colorful spots on poisonous frogs, and large spots on butterflies.
50) Life: beginnings of life, animal life, plant life, evolution of life, behavior and ecology of life
Author
Publisher
Wm. C. Brown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Language
English
Description
Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we walked upright long before we acquired large brains, and new evidence from molecules that enable scientists to decipher the tree of life as never before.
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54) Life stories
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Language
English
Description
Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.
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Series
Organisms and environments volume 8
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
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Author
Language
English
Description
"The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish, now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our presence on this planet is an accident or inevitable. The great transformations in the history of life brought about whole scale shifts in how animals live and how their bodies are organized: the evolution of fish to land-living creature, the origin of birds,...