Pocket • 2011 • Engelsk

Here be Dragons How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth

Name: Here be Dragons How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth
SKU: 9780199595662
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ISBN: 9780199595662

Av Dennis McCarthy

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Om boken

Why do we find polar bears only in the Arctic and penguins only in the Antarctic? Why are marsupials found only in Australia and South America? In a book that Science News called "fascinating and revelatory," Dennis McCarthy tells a story that encompasses two great, insightful theories that together explain the strange patterns of life across the world--evolution and plate tectonics. We find animals and plants where we do because, over time, the continents have moved, separating and uniting in a...Vis mer

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Økologi, biosfæren

Mikrobiologi (ikke-medisinsk)

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9780199595662

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Oxford University Press

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2011

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Engelsk

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Here be Dragons How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth

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Pocket

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