Darwin's Lost World: The Hidden History of Animal Life

by Martin D. Brasier

Book Overview

Darwin made a powerful argument for evolution in the Origin of Species, based on all the evidence available to him. But a few things puzzled him. One was how inheritance works - he did not know about genes. This book concerns another of Darwin's Dilemmas, and the efforts of modern palaeontologists to solve it.What puzzled Darwin is that the most very ancient rocks, before the Cambrian, seemed to be barren, when he would expect them to be teeming with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199548986
• ISBN13: 9780199548989
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.6"