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Darwin's Lost World by Martin Brasier (2009, Hardcover) 
Darwin's Lost World by Martin Brasier (2009, Hardcover)

 
Darwin's Lost World by Martin Brasier (2009, Hardcover)

Author: Martin Brasier
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2009-03-15
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0199548978
ISBN-13: 9780199548972
Product ID: EPID70927108
Description: One of the natural mysteries that Charles Darwin could not explain with his theory of natural selection was the seeming lack of fossils to be found in Precambrian rocks, which he felt should hold vast quantities of key evidence supportin...
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One of the natural mysteries that Charles Darwin could not explain with his theory of natural selection was the seeming lack of fossils to be found in Precambrian rocks, which he felt should hold vast quantities of key evidence supporting his findings. More than one hundred and fifty years later, modern science has finally caught up with Darwin, allowing paleontologist Martin Brasier to begin to explain the mysterious missing fossils. While limited Precambrian fossils have been discovered since Darwin, there remains some puzzlement over their short supply, since all other evidence indicates earth was swarming with various forms of life at this time. Brasier explains the difficulty of locating and studying these fossils, due to the soft bodies of these life forms, their microscopic size, and their sudden habitual switch to burrowing into the ground. Brasier's insights may answer Darwin's question, but they present a new one: how did these simple cellular organisms transform into the more complex creatures of the Cambrian era?

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Publication Date:2009-03-15

Size
Length:304 pages
Height:8.8 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:19.2 oz

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"This is...the most lively book about matters Cambrian and earlier. Martin Brasier has an engaging personality which comes across well in print. His accounts of life in the field are vivid. He puts over the science clearly..."
(06/12/2009)

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