Beschreibung:
The epic quest for missing links and other myths about evolution.
Written In Stone is the first book to tell the story of the fossils that mapped out evolutionary history. 150 years after Darwin'sOrigin was published, scientists are beginning to understand how whales walked into the sea, how horses stood up on their tip-toes, how feathered dinosaurs took to the air, and how our ancestors came down from the trees.
1. The Living Rock
2. Moving Mountains
3. From Fins to Fingers
4. Footprints and Feathers on the Sands of Time
5. The Meek Inherit the Earth
6. As Monstrous as a Whale
7. Behemoth
8. The End of the Trail
9. Through the Looking Glass
10. The End of Progress?