Mammal Evolution: An Illustrated Guide

by R.J.G. Savage

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081601194X
• ISBN13: 9780816011940
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Facts on File
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 2.88 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Savage's Lavishly Illustrated Masterpiece

I still pick up this book often to gawk at, even after owning it for several years. This has to be one of the most visually captivating books I have ever seen. Savage and Long succeed in bringing back to life a magnificent array of extinct mammals in this plentifully illustrated work. This is not an exhaustive, comprehensive textbook, but more of a glorious introduction to the history and evolutionary inteagues of major mammal groups. Even so, the book is very ambitious. It contains thought provoking commentary, family trees and charts, illustrations of fossil specimens, and best of all, drawings of all sorts of extinct mammals as they might have looked in life. Marvelously educational, and seriously fun.

First Rate!

A well written and beautifully illustrated coffee table book, or reference resource. I have found the book facinating to read. I especially have enjoyed the well executed drawings and paintings throughout the book. It gives the reader factual information, yet alludes to common theories and hypothetical possibilities. One possiblity it poses is; what if primates had not been the evolved species, and instead had been dominated by reptilian type species?