Evidence of Evolution
Will be published approx. on 1. October 2009
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-0-8109-4924-9 (ISBN)
Description
Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Evidence of Evolution uses exquisite images by distinguished photographer Susan Middleton to reveal beautiful and surprising patterns of evolutionary development in animals and plants. These photographs, of rare and remarkable specimens from the collections of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, are accompanied by a clear, accessible overview of the key evolutionary concepts that explain life on Earth, by science writer Mary Ellen Hannibal.Virtually a natural history museum in a book, Evidence of Evolution expresses the power of Darwin's vision in images and words that bridge art and science.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
95 full-colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 257 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
971 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8109-4924-9 (9780810949249)
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Persons
Susan Middleton is a distinguished nature photographer, whose images moved E.O. Wilson to write, 'their kind of testimony may count as much toward conserving life as all the data and generalizations of science'. She is coauthor of four books on the world's natural heritage. Mary Ellen Hannibal is the author of Leaves & Pods (Abrams). Her writing has appeared in publications such as the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire and Elle. She is the founder of Evolve 2009.