Prehistoric Life and Evolution: The Prentice Hall World of Nature

by Dougal Dixon

This study of paleontology highlights the fossil record and what it teaches about the origins and development of species. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136783198
• ISBN13: 9780136783190
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

An impressive work for young people

As a professor and children's writer, I am very impressed by this book. Dougal Dixon manages to cover an immense amount of scientific material in accurate, simple and easily understood terms. The book moves through geological time from the beginning of the earth and the start of life. It gives an over view of life in precambrian, paleozoic, mesozoic and cenozoic times and focuses greater detail in areas such as fossil fish, amphibians, reptiles, etc. Dougal Dixon also gives clear yet indepth explanations of complex subjects such as the mechanisms of evolution. The book is beautifully illustrated with a combination of photographs and art work of various sorts.