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010 $a 2012036689
020 $a9781936221035 (hardback)
020 $a1936221039 (hardback)
024 $a40021935750
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050 00 $aQE721.2.E85$bD68 2013
082 00 $a560/.1723$223
084 $aSCI054000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aErwin, Douglas H.,$d1958-
245 14 $aThe Cambrian explosion :$bthe construction of animal biodiversity /$cDouglas H. Erwin, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, James W. Valentine, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
264 1 $aGreenwood Village, Colorado :$bRoberts and Company,$c[2013]
300 $ax, 406 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The Cambrian Period records one of the most extraordinary transitions in the history of life. Although animals may have first appeared nearly 700 million years ago, with the earliest sponges, their initial diversifications appear to have been modest until a richly diverse fossil fauna appeared relatively abruptly about 170 million years later. In The Cambrian Explosion, Erwin and Valentine synthesize research from many fields to explain why there was such remarkable novelty of animal forms"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Stratigraphy and Geochronology -- 3. Environmental changes -- 4. Classification and the Metazoan Tree of Life -- 5. Dawn of Animals: the Ediacaran Fauna -- 6. Metazoan Architectures of the Cambrian Explosion -- 7. Ghostly Ancestors -- 8. The Origin of Metazoan Ecosystems -- 9. The Metazoan Genome and the Cambrian Explosion -- 10. Constructing the Cambrian.
650 0 $aEvolutionary paleobiology.
650 0 $aPaleontology$yCambrian.
650 0 $aBiodiversity$xClimatic factors.
650 7 $aSCIENCE / Paleontology.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aValentine, James W.
852 00 $bglg$hQE721.2.E85$iD68 2013