history of life by Richard Cowen
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contents

Preface
Chapters:

  1. The Origin of Life on Earth
  2. Earth's Earliest Life
  3. Sex and Nuclei: Eukaryotes
  4. The Evolution of Metazoans
  5. The Cambrian Explosion
  6. Changing Life in a Changing World
  7. The Early Vertebrates
  8. Leaving the Water
  9. Tetrapods and Amniotes
  10. Early Amniotes and Thermoregulation
  11. The Triassic Takeover
  12. Dinosaurs
  13. The Evolution of Flight
  14. The Modernization of Land and Sea
  15. The Origin of Mammals
  16. The End of Dinosaurs
  17. Cenozoic Mammals: Origins, Guilds and Trends
  18. Geography and Evolution
  19. Primates
  20. Evolving Toward Humans
  21. Life in the Ice Ages

Glossary
Index