Trilobite
Eyewitness to Evolution
Published on 10. February 2010
320 pages
978-0-307-43467-8 (ISBN)
Description
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.
Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago. As bewilderingly diverse then as the beetle is today, they survived in the arctic or the tropics, were spiky or smooth, were large as lobsters or small as fleas. And because they flourished for three hundred million years, they can be used to glimpse a less evolved world of ancient continents and vanished oceans. Erudite and entertaining, this book is a uniquely exuberant homage to a fabulously singular species.
Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago. As bewilderingly diverse then as the beetle is today, they survived in the arctic or the tropics, were spiky or smooth, were large as lobsters or small as fleas. And because they flourished for three hundred million years, they can be used to glimpse a less evolved world of ancient continents and vanished oceans. Erudite and entertaining, this book is a uniquely exuberant homage to a fabulously singular species.
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Richard Fortey lives in London.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Other Books by this Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Plates
- Preface
- Chapter I - Discovery
- Chapter II - Shells
- Chapter III - Legs
- Chapter IV - Crystal Eyes
- Chapter V - Exploding Trilobites
- Chapter VI - Museum
- Chapter VII - A Matter of Life and Death
- Chapter VIII - Possible Worlds
- Chapter IX - Time
- Chapter X - Eyes to See
- Acknowledgements
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Copyright
