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BL
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632799
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| Main Entry
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Ward, Peter D., (Peter Douglas),1949-
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| Title & Author
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Future evolution /\ Peter Ward ; images by Alexis Rockman ; foreword by Niles Eldredge
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| Edition Statement
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First edition
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xv, 190 pages :: color illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0716734966
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: 9780716734963
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| Notes
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"A W.H. Freeman Book."
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-182) and index
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| Contents
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Foreword : Biological futures / Niles Eldredge -- Preface -- Introduction : Chronic argonauts -- Deep past : a tale of two extinctions -- Near past : the beginning of the end of the age of megamammals -- Into the present -- Reuniting Gondwanaland -- Near future : a new world -- First ten million years : the recovery fauna -- After the recovery : a new age? -- Future evolution of humans -- Scenarios of human extinction : will there be an after man? -- Deep time, far future
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| Abstract
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Describing mass extinction as the primary catalyst for evolutionary change throughout our planet's history, the author argues that we are well into the extinction phase of the Age of Megamammals and that future evolution will be seriously hampered by the lack of species diversity. He also predicts humankind's evolving alongside machines, in company with genetically altered plants that will infest the world as weeds and cloned animal species devoid of any evolutionary spark
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Full of Alexis Rockman's color images of what animals, plants, and other organisms might look like thousands and millions of years from now, Future Evolution takes readers on a journey through time from the deep past into the far future
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| Subject
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Evolution (Biology)
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| Dewey Classification
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576.8
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QH366.2.W37 2001
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