Skeletons: The Frame of Life

by Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams

Book Overview

Over half a billion years ago life on earth took an incredible step in evolution, when animals learned to build skeletons. Using many different materials, from calcium carbonate and phosphate, and even silica, to make shell and bone, they started creating the support structures that are now critical to most living forms, providing rigidity and strength. Manifesting in a vast variety of forms, they provided the framework for sophisticated networks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198802102
• ISBN13: 9780198802105
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"