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" At the water's edge : "
Carl Zimmer.
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BL
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1037037
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b791407
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| Main Entry
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Zimmer, Carl,1966-
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At the water's edge : : macroevolution and the transformation of life /\ Carl Zimmer.
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New York :: Free Press,, ©1998.
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290 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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0684834901
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: 9780684834900
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-274) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Life's Warps -- 1. After a Lost Balloon -- 2. Limitless Air, Ho! -- 3. How to Make a Hand -- 4. Darwin's Saplings -- 5. The Mind at Sea -- 6. The Equation of a Whale -- 7. Along the Tethyan Shores -- 8. Walking to Swimming -- 9. A Voyage Out -- 10. On the Trails of Macroevolution -- Evolutionary Chronology.
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Explains the process of macroevolution, "the transformation of body shapes across millions of years," whereby microbes evolved into fish and eventually into humans.
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Macroevolution.
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Biological Evolution.
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Biology.
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Macroevolution.
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| Dewey Classification
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576.8
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QH371.5.Z55 1998
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576.8 Z72a
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576.822
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QP 1000 ZIM.uk-btusl
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