『哺乳類天国―恐竜絶滅以後、進化の主役たち 』（原書） Beasts of Eden : Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution

『哺乳類天国―恐竜絶滅以後、進化の主役たち』（原書）<br>Beasts of Eden : Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution

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『哺乳類天国―恐竜絶滅以後、進化の主役たち』（原書）
Beasts of Eden : Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution

Wallace, David Rains

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University of California Press（2005/09発売）
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ポイント 46pt

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製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 368 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780520246843
DDC分類 599.138

基本説明

博物館の壁画が誘う哺乳類進化の波乱の研究史。早川書房 (2006-07-31出版)
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2004. Eminent naturalist brings the saga of ancient mammals to a general audience for the first time. Draws from history, science, evolutionary theory, and art history.

Full Description

Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosaurs, and their story is perhaps the more fascinating of the two - in part because it is also our own story. In this literate and entertaining book, eminent naturalist David Rains Wallace brings the saga of ancient mammals to a general audience for the first time. Using artist Rudolph Zallinger's majestic The Age of Mammals mural at the Peabody Museum as a frame for his narrative, Wallace deftly moves over varied terrain - drawing from history, science, evolutionary theory, and art history - to present a lively account of fossil discoveries and an overview of what those discoveries have revealed about early mammals and their evolution. In these pages we encounter towering mammoths, tiny horses, giant-clawed ground sloths, whales with legs, uintatheres, zhelestids, and other exotic extinct creatures as well as the scientists who discovered and wondered about their remains. We meet such memorable figures as Georges Cuvier, Richard Owen, Edward D.
Cope, George Gaylord Simpson, and Stephen Jay Gould and learn of their heated disputes, from Cuvier's and Owen's fights with early evolutionists to present controversies over the Late Cretaceous mass extinction. Wallace's own lifelong interest in evolution is reflected in the book's evocative and engaging style and in the personal experiences he expertly weaves into the tale, providing an altogether expansive perspective on what Darwin described as the 'grandeur' of evolution.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue. The Fresco and the Fossil 1. Pachyderms in the Catacombs 2. Dr. Jekyll and the Stonesfield Jaws 3. The Origin of Mammals 4. The Noblest Conquest 5. Terrible Horns and Heavy Feet 6. Mr. Megatherium versus Professor Mylodon 7. Fire Beasts of the Antipodes 8. Titans on Parade 9. Five-toed Horses and Missing Links 10. The Invisible Dawn Man 11. A Bonaparte of Beasts 12. Love and Theory 13. Simpson's Cynodont-to-Smilodon Synthesis 14. Shifting Ground 15. Dissolving Ancestries 16. Exploding Faunas 17. The Revenge of the Shell Hunters 18. Simpson Redivivus 19. Winds Thieves of the Kyzylkum 20. The Serpent's Offering 21. Anthropoid Leapfrog Epilogue. Cenozoic Parks Notes Select Bibliography Index