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An edition of Beasts of Eden (2003)

Beasts of Eden

walking whales, dawn horses, and other enigmas of mammal evolution

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University of California Press
Language
English
Pages
340

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Subjects
Mammals, Evolution, Mammals, Fossil, Fossil Mammals, Mammals, fossil

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Beasts of Eden: walking whales, dawn horses, and other enigmas of mammal evolution
2005, University of California Press
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Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution
September 13, 2005, University of California Press
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Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution
2004, University of California Press
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Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution
2004, University of California Press
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Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution
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Beasts of Eden: walking whales· dawn horses· and other enigmas of mammal evolution
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Table of Contents

Prologue. the fresco and the fossil
Pachyderms in the catacombs
Dr. Jekyll and the Stonesfield jaws
The origin of mammals
The noblest conquest
Terrible horns and heavy feet
Mr. Megatherium versus professor Mylodon
Fire beasts of the antipodes
Titans on parade
Five-toed horses and missing links
The invisible dawn man
A Bonaparte of beasts
Love and theory
Simpson's Cynodont-to-Smilodon synthesis
Shifting ground
Dissolving ancestries
Exploding faunas
The revenge of the shell hunters
Simpson redivivus
Winds thieves of the Kyzylkum
The serpent's offering
Anthropoid leapfrog
Epilogue: Cenozoic parks.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-314) and index.

Other Titles
Walking whales, dawn horses, and other enigmas of mammal evolution.

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Library of Congress
QL708.5 .W25 2005 , QL708.5 .W25 2004

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Pagination
xxviii, 340 p. :
Number of pages
340

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15573775M
Internet Archive
beastsedenwalkin00wall_422
ISBN 10
0520237315
LCCN
2003022857
OCLC/WorldCat
53254011
Library Thing
448930
Goodreads
913591

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THE MOST STRIKING FIGURE IN the Peabody's Age of Mammals comes toward the end, among the Ice Age's brilliant foliage.
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