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Deep Time Henry Gee

Deep Time By Henry Gee

Deep Time by Henry Gee


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Gee introduces the revolutionary new approach to looking at the history of life - a way of looking beyond the fossil record called cladistics. This throws out old ideas of missing links and descent and instead shows a way back to our ancestors through the almost unimaginable depths of evolutionary time.

Deep Time Summary

Deep Time: Cladistics, the Revolution in Evolution by Henry Gee

For a long time, popular scientists have told us that by looking at a fossilised bone we could tell whether it belonged to our ancestors or not. This is not true. In Deep Time, Henry Gee, introduces for the first time in the popular science market a new way of thinking that has revolutionised the way that scientists are approaching the past - Cladistics. Cladistics ignores story-telling and authority and proposes a method based on shared characteristics, rather than ancestry and descent. As a result of using this new method Henry Gee is able to show us the wealth of new ideas that is radically altering our notions of the past: Dinosaurs with feathers; why fish developed fingers; what it means to be human.

Deep Time Reviews

This book will surprise, outrage and delight you - and make you think.' Jared Diamond 'Gee takes the reader inside contemporary palaeontology, from the excitement of a fossil dig with Maeve Leakey to the thousands of carefully stored and catalogued specimens at the Natural History Museum.' New Scientist 'As Gee's brilliant analysis shows, viewed afresh, evolution proves a more interesting and exciting - if more complex - story than we ever thought.' Scotsman

About Henry Gee

Henry Gee is the chief science writer and assistant editor of Nature. He holds a PhD from Cambridge in Zoology and has previously been Regent's Professor at UCLA. He also contributes to Le Monde, El Pais, Die Zeit and has previously written Before the Backbone: Views on the Origin of the Vertebrates (1996).

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GOR003327781
9781857029871
1857029879
Deep Time: Cladistics, the Revolution in Evolution by Henry Gee
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
20010305
272
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