Evolution: The Grand Experiment (3rd Edition) (Evolution: The Grand Experiment book series 1)
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Evolution: The Grand Experiment (3rd Edition) (Evolution: The Grand Experiment book series 1)
The Third Edition of Evolution: The Grand Experiment is more than a book about evolution. It is a multimedia experience and includes eight video clips, 797 beautiful full color photographs, links to web pages, and 339 hyperlinked bibliography references for easy viewing. This book has the most accurate information about walking whales, walking seals and bat ancestors.
The Grand Experiment now is the definitive source of information about walking whales with interviews with the scientists involved in the discovery of Rodhocetus, Ambulocetus, Pakicetus, Indohyus, SInonyx. Also this book has high resolution photographs of the ear bones (bulla) of Pakicetus, Ambulocetus and many modern whales.
This new e-book edition also introduces a fourteen-page appendix addressing Puijila darwini, the latest proposed ancestor for seals, sea lions and walruses. Readers are given the opportunity to compare the skeleton of Puijila alongside the skeletons of otters, seals and sea lions depicted in thirty high-resolution photographs. Readers are encouraged to form their own opinion regarding the authenticity of Puijila darwini's part in seal evolution.
The Third Edition of Volume I also has updates on bat evolution, including an in depth analysis of the latest fossil bat discovered, called Onychonycteris finneyi. Twenty-one photographs of this and other fossil and living bat skeletons are discussed.
The latest information concerning the total number of fossils that have been collected worldwide by museums is also included in this e-book.
With over 30 color diagrams, this e-book is designed for viewing, in color, on your personal home computer, iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Android and other phones and devices, and is available through Amazon.
Using Kindle software, which is free and downloadable, you are able to keep track of the page you are reading and sync this information to all your devices simultaneously.
The e-book is also accessible on black and white devices, although it is intended for color devices. (A free sample may be downloaded from Amazon.com at the link above.)