The Cambrian explosion : the construction of animal biodiversity /

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Author / Creator:Erwin, Douglas H., 1958-
Imprint:Greenwood Village, Colorado : Roberts and Company, [2013]
Description:x, 406 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9021724
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Other authors / contributors:Valentine, James W.
ISBN:9781936221035 (hardback)
1936221039 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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"--

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