Fossils : the key to the past /
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Author / Creator: | Fortey, Richard A. |
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Edition: | New ed. |
Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991. |
Description: | 187 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1296443 |
Summary: | This introduction offers an explanation of how fossils are a product of our evolving habitat. The emphasis is on what paleontology is really about, how the paleontologist tries to find out the ways in which fossil animals lived and how geological processes have interacted with the history of life. |
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Item Description: | Includes index. |
Physical Description: | 187 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. |
ISBN: | 0674311353 |