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서명/저자사항 | Beasts before us : the untold story of mammal origins and evolution/ Eisa Panciroli. |
개인저자 | Panciroli, Elsa,author. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ): illustrations (some color. |
기타형태 저록 | ebook version : 9781472983978 Original 9781472983824 1472983823 |
ISBN | 9781472983978 1472983971 |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index. |
내용주기 | Isle of mists and lagoons -- A thoroughly modern platypus -- Like a hole in the head -- The first age of mammals -- Hot-blooded hunters -- A total disaster -- Milk tooth -- Digital bones -- Chinese revelations -- Time of revolt -- The journey home -- Triumph of the little guy. |
요약 | "For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last 20 years scientists have uncovered new fossils and used new technologies that have upended this story. In Beasts Before Us, palaeontologist Elsa Panciroli charts the emergence of the mammal lineage, Synapsida, beginning at their murky split from the reptiles in the Carboniferous period, over three-hundred million years ago. They made the world theirs long before the rise of dinosaurs. Travelling forward into the Permian and then Triassic periods, we learn how our ancient mammal ancestors evolved from large hairy beasts with accelerating metabolisms to exploit miniaturisation, which was key to unlocking the traits that define mammals as we now know them"--provided by publisher. |
일반주제명 | Mammals, Fossil. Mammals --Evolution. Mammals --Evolution. Mammals, Fossil. |
언어 | 영어 |
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