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Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

Paperback • 2012 • English

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

By Richard Fortey

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About the book

From one of the world s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite , Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, throughout time. Evolution, it seems, has not completely obliterated its tracks as more advanced organisms have evolved; the history of life on earth is far old...Show more

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ISBN

9780307275530

Publisher

VINTAGE

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

Format

Paperback

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