evolution

Explores the variety of prehistoric life from fossils of early fish to the skeletons of meat-eating dinosaurs.

Text and over one thousand illustrations offer information on evolution and genetics, covering myths and scientific evidence, the origin of life, human evolution, mechanisms and heredity, and genetics. Includes glossary.

An illustrated introduction to the evolution of man, from the early hominids to the present day.

Explores the work of Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, focusing on his role in the discovery of the Peking Man, how the Church reacted to his work, and his loyalty to his religion.

Contains over twenty essays that explore evolution, covering historical figures in evolutionary biology, political debate over the topic, the genetic blueprint, the fossil record, and cognition and culture.

Presents an overview of the theory of evolution, and features fourteen essays, half that offer arguments in favor of Creationism, and half that examine evidence in support of evolution.

Answers questions about the natural world such as why the large land animals are mammals, why there are so many bird species and why they are so small, and why bodies of water are home mainly to large reptiles instead of large mammals.

Argues that the sixth great extinction on Earth is underway, with 30,000 species disappearing every year. In the previous five extinctions, at least sixty-five percent of all species disappeared, the same rate that they are now disappearing.

Describes Darwin's famous voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle and documents the development of his ideas, and the controversy that greeted them.

A reference book dealing with early animal life on earth from worms to dinosaurs and with man's evolution.