Waterstones Evolution in Action
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Price: £24.95
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Spectacular, mysterious, elegant, or grotesque, the vertebrate skeletons of Earth's fossil record carry within them the traces of several billion years of life. Evolution in Action, a resounding success on its initial publication in 2007, is a unique and beautiful attempt to provide a map of those billion years in time. Now updated and presented in a smaller format with seventeen new utterly distinctive photographs, this book steps beyond the debate and presents the undeniable truth of Darwin's theory, showing through 200 photographs of skeletons both obscure and commonplace, but always intriguing, the process by which life has transformed itself, again and again,.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780500515983
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780500515983
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Author: J. Taylor
Rating: 5
Review: My first impression, upon picking up this book is that it was thick and heavy, making it stereotypically challenging to decipher and remain conscious. However, I was delighted to find a stunning array of photos fully complement each of the 44 short chapters, making this very readable indeed! The chapters of 'Evolution in Action' are divided into 6 sections: 1) Architecture (skeletal form) 2) The Birth of Species 3) Seduction & Selection 4) Evolutionary Tinkering 5) The Power of the Environment 6) Evolution and time Each chapter uses B&W photos of skeletons to expound an aspect of evolution, relating to the species illustrated. This really is a case for a picture being worth a thousand words: The glossy paper that makes the book heavy is put to optimal effect in capturing explicit anatomical details. Apart from teaching evolution by skeletal comparisons and vestiges, there is also a secondary narrative woven into the narrative - historical objection to common ancestry on religious grounds. Panafieu shows himself to be well up to both tasks, deftly expounding skeletal details, whilst charting the general enlightenment of mankind. I would say this is a fairly unique publication, the product quality and author's specialist knowledge make it very good value. The most similar books (I have also read) are the equally excellent 'Inside Nature's Giants' - a CH4 production, and 'The Ancestor's Tale' - one of Richard Dawkins finest. Buy this if you seek wide ranging evolutionary instruction, unravelled in photographic format.
Author: a.c.scott
Rating: 2
Review: I was hoping for the larger version format that was first published. As I use it for making scaled sculpture armatures the bigger format woudl have been more useful. great book and lovely photos but it would be fabulous to have one with just contemprary animals as well as the historical animals and some contemporary.
