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Beasts of Eden : walking whales, dawn horses, and other enigmas of mammal evolution / David Rains Wallace.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 340 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520939400
  • 0520939409
  • 1597344818
  • 9781597344814
  • 0520246845
  • 9780520246843
  • 1417545399
  • 9781417545391
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beasts of Eden.DDC classification:
  • 599.138 22
LOC classification:
  • QL708.5 .W25 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue: The Fresco and the Fossil -- Pachyderms in the Catacombs -- Dr. Jekyll and the Stonesfield Jaws -- The Origin of Mammals -- The Noblest Conquest -- Terrible Horns and Heavy Feet -- Mr. Megatherium versus Professor Mylodon -- Fire Beasts of the Antipodes -- Titans on Parade -- Five-toed Horses and Missing Links -- The Invisible Dawn Man -- A Bonaparte of Beasts -- Love and Theory -- Simpson's Cynodont-to-Smilodon Synthesis -- Shifting Ground -- Dissolving Ancestries -- Exploding Faunas -- The Revenge of the Shell Hunters -- Simpson Redivivus -- Winds Thieves of the Kyzylkum -- The Serpent's Offering -- Anthropoid Leapfrog -- Epilogue: Cenozoic Parks.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-314) and index.

Print version record.

Prologue: The Fresco and the Fossil -- Pachyderms in the Catacombs -- Dr. Jekyll and the Stonesfield Jaws -- The Origin of Mammals -- The Noblest Conquest -- Terrible Horns and Heavy Feet -- Mr. Megatherium versus Professor Mylodon -- Fire Beasts of the Antipodes -- Titans on Parade -- Five-toed Horses and Missing Links -- The Invisible Dawn Man -- A Bonaparte of Beasts -- Love and Theory -- Simpson's Cynodont-to-Smilodon Synthesis -- Shifting Ground -- Dissolving Ancestries -- Exploding Faunas -- The Revenge of the Shell Hunters -- Simpson Redivivus -- Winds Thieves of the Kyzylkum -- The Serpent's Offering -- Anthropoid Leapfrog -- Epilogue: Cenozoic Parks.

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.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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